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Secure the boat, pile sandbags and hunker down: Queensland’s Bribie Island braces for Cyclone Alfred

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Cyclone Alfred is tracking towards the south-east Queensland coast and could make landfall on Thursday or Friday morning .

The storm was due to grow to category two on Tuesday , slow and then make a sharp right turn towards the Queensland coast.

Storm was expected to maintain intensity as a category two and make landfall between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast late on Thursday .

A pair of retirees from Tasmania have spent the last five months housesitting a home on a Bribie canal.

They have stocked up on cans of tuna, beans, toilet paper and muesli bars.

The pair are worried the garden will get a bit stuffed up as the owners are due home in a few weeks .

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