A tropical storm is expected to make landfall on Australia's eastern coast on Saturday morning as tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and more than 230,000 households left without power.

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

which spawned last week amid a rare trio of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, is forecast to make landfall in southern Queensland near Brisbane, Australia, on Thursday. Although the storm ...

adding that it was "crucially important" the public did not "dismiss" the storm. "It really doesn't matter to us whether it's been downgraded from a tropical cyclone to a weather event," he said.