George Christensen (Dawson, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to briefly comment and thank the Prime Minister and opposition leader. It looks as though the eye of the cyclone will cross tomorrow morning in my electorate perhaps somewhere between Ayr and Mackay. It is tracking further south. I have to say that local mayors with whom I have been in contact over the past 24 hours have been particularly gracious of the support from the federal government in terms of the Defence Force deployments. That is very pleasing to see. All we can say is that it is in the hands of God at the moment as to what happens. We can only hope and pray that either the cyclone changes course or the damage is at least as it can be.

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