 Good afternoon everyone. Thankfully it appears that the far north has missed any significant damage or injury or loss of life as a result of the crossing of tropical cyclone Nathan earlier this morning. At the present time the cyclone continues to track across the Cape and is gradually weakening and hopefully later on this afternoon will be downgraded to a tropical low. Yeah the two communities that were primarily affected by the crossing were both Hopevale and Cooktown. I'm pleased to say that the damage in both towns was minor. Cooktown, the shed at the hospital suffered some damage to its roof, some damage to fences and some vegetation was damaged as well. Yeah it was a really big night for all emergency services and indeed all those local government agencies and councils in those areas. I know people worked right through it and through the night to make sure that the community was as safe as possible and and just as importantly that everyone was in a position to activate this morning should they be needed in the response phase or the recovery phase. Yes well throughout today we're reassessing the need for the additional staff and we're happy to say that that some of those will be returning home today back to their families down south and that's good news. That's good news for our communities because clearly the need for those additional resources just wasn't needed at the end of the day. Relief is the word that comes to mind this morning and that's from both the local government areas and the emergency services. Everyone's woken up this morning minimal damage at this stage. There's still a number of inquiries we have to conduct to make sure that all those people in those outlying stations and those other smaller areas are okay but it's looking very promising at this stage. Lizard Island was fully evacuated as was Kate Flattery. This morning and through this afternoon we're getting rapid damage assessment teams to assess the damage on those islands so at this stage I don't have a specific details of any damage that has occurred there. Yes well again there was some damage done to the banana crop there but no way near as severe as it was last year. It looks like while some of the plants have been damaged and some of the crop has been lost the majority of the crop is still there. This was definitely a case of prepare for the worst but for the best and come out the other side wasn't it? It certainly was but what I can say is the level of preparation and the dedication and commitment of all the agencies and councils just highlighted yet again how the communities far north will work together and confront any of these cyclones or any other disaster situation head on and you know they can be very very proud of the work that they've done in the preparation and just in saying that I want to thank the community also in all these areas there wasn't complacency they didn't take things for granted. The people up here they certainly know what these systems can bring and it's through their work and their efforts and their preparation that we can feel very secure that we would have been able to face even if the cyclone had impacted further south. Each and every year when we front these systems and we respond to them there are lessons to be learned and this is no different you know the days of people saying we've got it perfectly right well they just don't exist. We'll look at what we've done this time we will certainly assess what we've done and where improvements can be made we will certainly make them next time. Yes absolutely the this morning when we were getting some good situational awareness from our people on the grounds it was heartening to see that there was a bloke in Cooktown who was out tossing lures hoping to catch a fish now that to me is a great sign of people getting straight back into life and and getting back on track.