 One, two, three, four, we're okay. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. My name is Ian Stewart, and I'm Deputy Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service and I'm also the State Disaster Coordinator. Good morning, everyone. Since I last provided information in relation to our preparations for the current weather events that are predicted for the next week, little has changed. The latest advice from the Bureau of Meteorology confirms that tropical cyclone Anthony is still approximately 900 kilometres off the coast of Townsville. And it is still expected to turn towards the Queensland coast sometime today. The prediction is also that it is, due to its slow moving nature, that it will not be until Monday morning that it will cross the coast. And the area at the moment that we're considering is anywhere between basically Harvey Bay and Cooktown. The reason that that is a broader area that we're considering is to ensure that the preparations of both the community and our emergency service personnel are adequate for both tropical cyclone Anthony and the potential for the formation of a further cyclone that has been named Yasi later in the week. Certainly this morning, the State Disaster Crisis and Coordination meeting occurred at the Kedron headquarters of emergency management Queensland. That was attended by all of the disaster district coordinators and many of the local district management, disaster management groups from Harvey Bay North. And we are simply checking to make sure that all of their plans are in place to deal with any contingency should these two weather events cross the coast. While some people may be concerned that we are asking for this preparation to occur at this early stage, I think that the potential for these two events is of such a nature that it would be way too late to ask people to undertake the normal preparations sometime next week. We need them to act now and the clear messages are to stock up on essential goods to make sure that they have batteries, that they have a transistor radio, that they have adequate food for a couple of days and drinking water for a couple of days, that they have secured any items around their houses or residences that could turn into missiles and that they have made sure that pets and other important issues such as that have been considered should we have these events before us. And again, I must stress that we are asking people from Harvey Bay all the way to Cooktown to start those preparations. We ask them not to panic buy, we don't want panic buying to occur and there is no need for that. This is just a normal stock up of essential food stuffs and batteries, things like that that they would need to have on hand. We will closely monitor the advice that is coming from the Bureau of Meteorology and I would encourage all of the public that has access to those websites to do that and also to listen to the media, to you in the media to make sure that the updates that are provided are understood clearly by them, by the members of the public. We will also provide updates in media releases should we consider that necessary. I'm happy to take any questions about the preparations that are currently underway. Yassi is still a very large weather pattern over the area of Fiji. It has not yet formed into a tropical cyclone. So officially, we can't call it Yassi but certainly it is a very, very large system and is very concerning to us in terms of its size and its power. Should it come towards Queensland, it is an issue that we will have to look at very, very carefully in terms of any further preparations, particularly for coastal shipping and obviously inundation and local flooding that occurs with these large-scale events. Given that? Look, I'm asking people to stock up on essential items and things like that for that very large area I think is not unreasonable at this stage. Obviously, as both Anthony comes closer and if the other weather pattern which could be called Yassi comes closer to the coast, we will have significant warning time to narrow down the areas of impact and that's why I'm also asking members of the community to please monitor the media and monitor the official BOM website for clear indications of where those landfalls are likely to be. It is and unfortunately, as we will know, cyclones do bring large amounts of rain with them. We obviously are concerned that having two cyclones if that occurs so closely together will be significant in terms of localized flooding. We've also seen in the past that cyclones have moved into rain depressions and have moved further inland and cause significant flooding. So it is an area that we will monitor closely but we are able through advice from the Bureau of Meteorology to get a very clear indication of the type of and the volume of rain that will fall. So again, as we get more information we'll be able to better warn and better advise the community of what to expect. I don't think it'll be beyond our limits, certainly but it is an issue that we're already considering how we can resupply both resources and assets into those areas and we take early action to pre-place or pre-deploy specialist assets. For instance, the Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority have already made arrangements to pre-deploy their urban search and rescue and some elements of their swift water rescue experts and their equipment into North Queensland and that's already occurred and that will occur tomorrow. The Queensland Police Service is looking at its air assets and where they will be stationed and in fact we've already made arrangements to change the deployment of our air assets to take into account the likelihood of these two events. Again, you're right in terms of the category but we're a long way out from seeing what Yasi will become and I think we've got to be careful not to panic the community in relation to claims that it could be a cyclone five but you're right about being able to shelter. Obviously, there are specific evacuations, centres that are identified and used because they are strengthened specifically for this type of event but the majority of the population will shelter in place. In other words, they'll shelter in their own homes and we ask people to read up on the types of precautions they can take during that most critical time when if the cyclone comes across their particular population centre it means that people can shelter in very strong parts of their house areas like the bathrooms, the toilets where there are significant walls that will help to protect them during that time. So there is a lot of advice in relation to the actions that people can take contained in the official websites and in pamphlets that are available through local government and we do have the, I suppose, the luck at this stage of knowing about this weather event quite a number of days out and I'm talking about the one that's, the system that's currently over Fiji we'll be able to monitor that closely and we'll be able to give people better advice as the days go past. You're probably aware the State Disaster Management Group stood up yesterday and had its first meeting in relation to these events. We're meeting again as the State Disaster Management Group tomorrow. This morning, as I said, the State Disaster Coordination and Crisis Meeting was held and it will be held again tomorrow and that will be as a needs basis but it is likely that the crisis and coordination meeting will be every day while these events are unfolding and the SDMG will be on a needs basis. Certainly this is one of the things that we always look at and we are making those inquiries right now. I know that retailers were contacted, large retail groups were contacted yesterday to start considering how they were going to manage their supplies should they be impacted by these two events. Okay, if there are no other questions thank you very much for coming in. I understand that we're going to be considering our need to provide you with stand-up media conferences on a needs basis so we'll let you know should we intend to come together with you. Thank you, really appreciate your involvement in this. The media have a very, very strong role to play in making sure the public is well aware of what's occurring. So thank you. Thank you. Okay, that's it.