 Okay, thank you. Well, Cyclone Yassi, thankfully, is now a low pressure system close to the Northern Territory border. There are still some residual issues in the area in terms of rain bans and storm activity, but thankfully, we're glad to see the end of it. I can confirm, unfortunately, the death of a young man south of Ingram. Unfortunately, the young person involved, it appears, and I just do stress that the coroner will, of course, determine the cause of death, but it appears that this young man was using a generator in an enclosed environment. Our condolences, of course, go to his family and friends, but again, it's just timely for us to provide a very clear safety message to the many people throughout the region, particularly those highly impacted areas where power problems still exist, that the use of generators needs to be undertaken in a safe manner, and simply that means plenty of ventilation and open spaces. This is a tragic loss of life, and again, our condolences extend to that young man's family and friends. We do understand that many people in the highly impacted areas in particular are getting anxious about the levels of support and contact that they're able to have with emergency authorities. We just ask them to be patient, but we reassure them, particularly from today, that there are large teams of people in the area and moving into the area today and over the weekend to provide that additional support. There have been significant difficulties in terms of access. Roads are cut in a large number of areas. There's heavily debris on many, many of the main access roads, but we are slowly getting people in, and from today, they will see large teams of people in the area. To give an example of the resources which will be deployed, between Cairns and Townsville, there will be 150-plus extra police on top of existing resources deployed, particularly to those highly impacted areas. As we've already indicated, around 500 SES between now and next Wednesday will be deployed again into those highly impacted areas, the Tullies, Cardwells, Mission Beads, etc. On top of that, Australian Defence Force, Ergon, Telstra, Optus are putting in extra people to work on the infrastructure to get essential services back on board. Queensland Fire and Rescue Service have moved their urban search and rescue teams. These are the people that do the rapid damage assessment and are now based in Tullie, and will provide some more detail on that. In terms of power supply, which is a significant issue right across the region, Ergon advises that by the weekend they expect to have up to 850 staff working on restoring the network. The normal workforce for that region is around 300. During Cyclone Larry, there were around 450 people deployed. So in terms of the Ergon assets, we're talking about twice the number of people that were able to respond to Cyclone Larry, and around three times the normal workforce will be in the area over the next couple of days working on restoring power. So the simple message and the clear message to those communities, particularly people in the highly impacted areas, is that we understand you're anxious, but there are large teams of people in the area now, and many more will be moving into the area over the next couple of days. Mr, can you just clarify just how many people are missing and who is missing where? If I could move on to that issue shortly, I'll get the Deputy Commissioner to make a few comments about that. There are a couple of other issues I'd just like to give some information about first, in terms of power, which is of significant concern. I've talked about the assets and people that Ergon will be moving in. Power Link today, for the first time, will now be able to get aerial assets into the air to inspect their network. And later on today, we hope to have a more accurate assessment about the impact, particularly on the transmission towers, and that will be happening today. In terms of damage assessment generally, the best form of advice, of course, is on the ground people. But what we've been able to do through the Queensland Fire Rescue Service air operations is to survey many of the affected communities. We will get them today, because we're able to get helicopter assets into the air into some of those more difficult communities. And I'm talking about places such as Lucinda, Halifax and Forest Beach, where we haven't been able to get into previously for assessments. But up to this point, and I do stress these are very preliminary assessments, we know that there are at least 20 homes which have been totally destroyed in the high impact area, and around 400 at least, with moderate to major damage. We expect those numbers to rise as more assessments are undertaken, particularly now that we can get more helicopters into the air and more people on the ground to assess communities street by street. But I do stress that access is still a problem in a number of areas. Very heavy rain, localised flooding in places like Ingham, Garoo and Flash flooding in individual areas of the Macrossan Bridge currently has around four plus metres across it, restricting access out to Charters Towers. But a lot of work has been done to get people through and particularly to get things such as resupply of essential services and food and equipment into areas. Resupply of many of these communities will be a key focus and has been for some time. I can confirm today that a ship will arrive in Townsville with 2,750 tonnes of essential feed items and supplies. That's equivalent of 110 trucks of equipment, food and equipment and supplies. We are looking through trans-Witman main roads as well as opening up alternative routes into places such as Tully and we've had advice later this morning that road access where it's available up to Mackay, we've now got road access at least through to Tully and alternative routes are being sought to ensure that we can get those supply operations underway. The final point I just want to conclude on is to again reassure those communities, particularly in the hardest hit areas that we understand the difficulties that they are experiencing. We know that power is cut. We know that communications is difficult. We know that moving around those communities is difficult. But there are many people in the areas working on those issues and many more will be seen in the areas over the next couple of days. I might just ask the Deputy Commissioner to say a few words and then we're happy to answer any more detailed questions. Thank you Minister and in relation to the missing persons we are still undertaking inquiries to look for two people, both males in that Cardwell area. Certainly they will be a focus when we have the resources available to get in there and conduct appropriate searches. Up until that time we'll be undertaking the necessary inquiries to try and locate them. I can provide that afterwards. Is one of those people that are missing, is that the gentleman from Porch or a ancient book who has been down to attend his job? That's correct. Before we have any more questions I might just ask Bruce Grady for me and Q to say a few words about some of the responses from the Department of Community Safety personnel as well. Thanks Minister. As I advised yesterday, 50 additional SES personnel were flown into Cairns with a further 140 today and 100 scheduled to go tomorrow. With more on standby as the Minister said there's more than 500 who are already ready to deploy into the area. They do need to be staged. We do need to make sure that when they arrive that we make best use of these people and that's why yesterday was spent making assessments so that we can develop the appropriate strategies to get these people in to start assisting the community as early as possible. To give some further indications of the scale of the event the 132500 number to the SES has now taken 4183 calls directly related to this event. That's resulted in 2823 tasks and 960 of those tasks relate to people reporting significant damage to their properties. So they will be the focus of these SES crews as they deploy into the area. You can imagine the sort of work Tupolans on roofs getting these properties back in to a livable state. That's our priority over the next few days and the early weeks of this event. Thank you. The people whose homes have been completely destroyed. That was the other point I needed to raise. The Department of Community and the House of Salvation Army, Lifeline, all of those service agencies are currently operating a number of evacuation centres and they will continue as required and also opening up recovery centres particularly in the highly impacted communities. For those people that do require longer term accommodation the Department of Communities will initially be working with those through the existing evacuation centres to identify appropriate properties and housing to move into for the longer term. So that's an issue which is currently being worked on and will continue to be resolved in the coming days. In terms of the people who are missing, who has reported them missing? In relation to the there is one male who has been reported by his sister and she lives in Brisbane. There is another person who was talking to a friend overseas. This is the gentleman on the boat and that report has come from the overseas contact as I understand. The first man you mentioned, is it the same one yesterday that you thought was missing? No, totally different. We did locate a gentleman yesterday but we've gone back up to two cases today. And this is totally different in terms of profile from the flood events that we had just recently. We think that's mainly because the people were with their friends and loved ones at the time of the cyclone pass and so everyone knows that they're okay that they've got through this in the main. And there was also a window of opportunity after Yasi pass that there were good communications still available to people. What's happened now is those communications have failed not because of only because of destruction of phone towers and other infrastructure but because now battery backup is starting to wane on those types of things. The western river to Richmond, Julia Creek and now think about Isoho, are they okay in those places? Yes, this morning's teleconference we had the mayors and district disaster coordinators from each of those districts and whereas there have been reports of trees down and minor impacts in various properties, basically the impact has been negligible. So again, we just really do thank those communities in those regions which have felt the impact of the night for cooperating with their local disaster and district disaster groups and thankfully Yasi has now reduced to a low pressure system, still leaving a bit of rain particularly up in the gulf area. So there are some issues up there in terms of flooding that might develop over the next few days but thankfully as it approached towards Julia Creek Mount Iso it weakened and we haven't had any reports of any significant damage. Which communities have you not been able to get into at this time? Well, many of these communities already do have police and emergency services personnel in them with the local residents. It's been a difficult in accessing those communities by road with heavy equipment, etc. But as I've indicated earlier the areas where we want to do some aerial surveillance today are Halifax, Lucinda area, some of those smaller communities and we'll get the air assets into the air today and this morning we will get a better picture of the damage in those particular locations. So is it damage you're looking for there or missing people as well or possibly? Well it's predominantly damage obviously there is still some communication and intermittent communication into some of these areas and as the Deputy Commissioner has indicated we've only had those two reports of missing persons at this stage so predominantly the focus is on getting an assessment of the damage. There's going to be a lot of rebuilding work in a lot of communities and we need to get accurate as possible an assessment of the damage and if we can do that by air initially, ultimately it needs to be house by house building by building. We know for example in places like Tully it's not just the significant number of residential properties that have been damaged and the CBD there is significant damage to commercial and industrial properties as well. All of those assessments will take time. Will you have to fly supplies into those communities? Well we're looking at all options in terms of resupply that's a key focus of the disaster groups locally and at the state level. Resupply of communities is an absolutely essential role that is being undertaken and whether it needs to be flowing in by track ultimately we need hopefully to get the rail lines open as well whatever means is available we'll be using that to get resupply of essential items and food stuffs into those communities. Minister do you think the state needs disaster insurance? Well if that's an issue which I've heard is raised I mean we have a very significant cooperative arrangement with the federal government under the natural disaster relief and recovery arrangement. It's been long standing it works well. What that system means is that when a particular trigger point is reached in terms of damage about the state and the Commonwealth contribute towards the costs of restoration it's work well in Queensland and I expect it to work well into the future. Audrey Citizen has to have insurance to protect their property. Why shouldn't a state government have insurance to protect public property? Well these are questions which ultimately are not the responsibility of the emergency services and police minister my major focus is an operational response so some of those questions should be directed to others but I will say that we do have very robust arrangements already in place agreements with the Commonwealth government about what we do to restore public assets whether that be state assets or council assets and that system has worked well cooperatively with the Commonwealth for many many years and we expect it to work well into the future. Just in terms of the ship off town for we could just say that was going to arrive? That ship is expected to arrive today I don't have a precise time that will of course be determined by tides but again 2,750 tonnes of essential feed items and supplies which is good news for that community but I just stress again that a lot of work has been undertaken to look at alternative routes to get road access into many of these communities and that work is underway and the trucks are starting to move as we speak. In terms of police or policing in the affected areas has there been any arrests of people? In the last couple of days we've had about 11 cases that could be analogous to looting offences but some of those have been opportunistic like the break and ender of a Yardsie on Wednesday night in Cairns at the height of the crossing of Yardsie and I think that might give an indication of the mentality of the people involved but certainly it's only 11 at this time since Yardsie's event started. How many of those 11 cases are attributed to looting do you think? The 11 are similar or actual looting offences. It's a bit shabby isn't it? I think it's a disgrace and it really is a disgrace that people would even consider doing this sort of thing at a time when the trauma being suffered by our community is so great. Where were those offences? I know the one in Cairns, there was one in Cairns on Wednesday night. The other details I can get to you after. And they've been charged or arrested? No offences. Thank you.