Tropical cyclone expected to make landfall in far north Queensland within hours. Follow today’s news live

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Luca Ittimani with the main action.

There’s plenty of news about but the main action this morning is in far north Queensland, where a huge and fierce storm is about to make landfall.