Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Australia after a cyclone brought wild weather to the east coast. Communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW) were beginning the clean-up on Sunday after the storm caused widespread flooding and knocked down power lines and trees.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cautioned that the fallout from a vicious tropical storm over the weekend was “far from over.”

Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than a quarter of a million properties and swamped parts of Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured in the wild weather.

Eastern Australia is grappling with severe flooding as the remnants of Cyclone Alfred bring torrential rains, causing power blackouts for over 200,000 properties and prompting urgent rescue operations.

Ex-Cyclone Alfred yesterday stalled off the rain and wind-lashed coast of eastern Australia, threatening to unleash floods after blacking out more than 330,000 homes and businesses, while 36 people were injured when two army trucks collided.

Wild weather has blacked out more than 300,000 homes and businesses on Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured. After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone generating heavy weather across the region,

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Ex-Cyclone Alfred stalled off the rain- and wind-lashed coast of eastern Australia today, threatening to unleash floods after blacking out more than 330,000 homes and businesses.