 Good evening ladies and gentlemen and thank you for entering this conversation with me tonight. My name's Ian Stewart. I'm the Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations of the Queensland Police Service. I'm also again newly appointed as the State Disaster Coordinated. That appointment took place this afternoon and it's in response to two weather events which we have been advised could affect Queensland during the next week. The first of these is tropical cyclone Anthony which has reformed in the Coral Sea and is now heading towards the Queensland coast. The advice we've been given in relation to this cyclone is that it is likely to increase in intensity over the next couple of days crossing the coast. At the moment the best estimate of that would be the early hours of Sunday morning. I apologise the early hours of Monday morning but could be as early as Sunday afternoon. The target area that is presently forecast for that event is somewhere between Cairns and Bowen as I understand it. Part of my role is to assist all of the areas and emergency services in those areas to prepare themselves and their communities for the impact of that initial event. This will include obviously psychonic winds, possibly localised flooding and certainly significant rain. We know already that the area is quite saturated from the rain events over the past month. So this will have certainly a significant impact on the area if it strikes land in the next couple of days. We are meeting as part of the State Disaster Management Group and the State Disaster Coordination Group over the next two days to ensure that all preparations that can be taken are being taken in readiness for that event. The second event that we are being advised may occur later next week and it is possibly as late as next Thursday as Friday is a further psychonic event which is emanating from a pressure system which is currently over the Fiji area. The modelling for that event has indicated that it may form into a cyclone and may ultimately move towards the Australian and in particular the Queensland area. Obviously this is some time away but we are advised that if this were to occur the name of that cyclone would be Cyclone Yasi and that system currently is quite powerful and large already. So we are concerned that Queensland may be impacted by these two weather events only days apart. Obviously again whilst the preparations are the same for both events there are significant issues in terms of making sure that people are aware of their evacuation areas are aware of the localised evacuation plans put in place by local government and district disaster groups in their area and that information is readily available through local government in their area where they live. I would encourage everyone to become familiar with evacuation plans, I would encourage everyone to take notice of Bureau of Meteorology warnings and certainly advice from your local emergency services or in fact from the state emergency services group. Securing articles around your home, moving items to certainly household items to more safe areas is critical so that we can lessen the impact of these events should they occur in our state. Whilst we don't wish to panic anyone in relation to this I would also suggest that people in the northern parts of the state do ensure that they have stocks of essential items including batteries, certainly torches, radios and particularly radios which aren't impacted by electricity cuts in their area. Also have supplies of drinking water and also necessities for foodstuffs. There is no need to panic by but certainly people should ensure that they have two or three days supply at their homes and at their residences should they need to utilise them. Obviously the critical factors over the next few days will be listening to the warnings and hearing the updates. I am hopeful that neither of these events will have a major impact on our state but obviously our job is to plan for the worst and hope for the best and that is why we have stood up the state disaster management group today and that is also why I have again been appointed as the state disaster coordinator. Thank you for listening and I will provide regular updates over the next few days on any information which I think is relevant to this event. Thank you.