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Policyholders have lodged more than 9,000 insurance claims associated with the ex-TC Alfred in south-east Queensland and New South Wales as of midday

Former Tropical Cyclone Alfred continued to dump heavy rain across large parts of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW) while moving inland, inundating roads and leaving tens of thousands of households without power as hundreds of schools remained shut, local media reported Monday.

The Australian coast is battling strong winds and heavy rain from tropical cyclone Alfred. Homes across Australia's eastern state of Queensland have sustained massive damage and power cuts. Thousands have been evacuated,

Tropical low Alfred has hit Australia's southeast coast, bringing heavy winds and rain. One person is dead, police report, and hundreds of thousands are without power as the storm knocks down trees and power lines,

After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred weakened into a tropical depression before making landfall on Saturday evening.

A rare tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, the country's third most populous city. Before being downgraded, Cyclone Alfred had been expected to become the first cyclone to cross the east Australian coast since 1974.

Hundreds of thousands of properties across two states in Australia remain without power after a storm made landfall.