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Beachside and low-lying suburbs most at risk, city council flood map shows, when category-two storm hits coastTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE updates and latest newsAlice thought Brisbane wouldn’t flood twice in one decade. Now she’s bracing for AlfredGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAuthorities in Brisbane say 20,000 properties in the city are at risk of inundation by storm surge or flooding as Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues its ominous track towards the populated south-east Queensland coast.Updated tracking maps on Wednesday morning show Alfred maintaining its intensity, speed and likely path to landfall.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking

Queensland premier says ‘very small number’ of people evacuated so far and ‘if you are told to evacuate, you should leave and I can’t be more blunt than that’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSandbag queues ‘about an hour’ in Brisbane – WellsThe federal sports minister, Anika Wells, also spoke on the Today Show this morning from Brisbane and said it was the “calm before the storm”.At the moment that’s the shortest it’s been in 24 hours. It’s a big couple of days ahead for south-east Queensland. We’re more than up to

Conservative alliance and Social Democrats to propose exempting spending of more than 1% of GDP on defenceThe prospective partners in Germany’s next government have said they will seek to loosen rules on running up debt to allow for higher defence spending.They said they will also seek to set up a huge €500bn ($533bn ) fund to finance spending on Germany’s infrastructure over the next 10 years. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/germanys-future-coalition-partners-to-relax-debt-rules-to-boost-defence-budget Author : Agencies Publish date : 2025-03-04 20:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Alice Mackey, 42, remanded in custody over death of Annabel Mackey, who was found in a pond in 2023A 42-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter who died after being found in a pond.Police were sent to a report that Annabel Mackey had gone missing from her home in Kingsley near Bordon, Hampshire, on 10 September 2023. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/04/woman-charged-two-year-old-daughter-pond-hampshire-annabel-mackey Author : PA Media Publish date : 2025-03-04 18:46:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.