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Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Australia after a cyclone brought wild weather to the east coast.

Storm Alfred has been downgraded from a cyclone to a tropical low, but local authorities have warned that the threat it poses is "not over".

Four million people are in the firing line of the region's first tropical cyclone in more than half a century, which is expected to make landfall on Saturday.

The cyclone is expected to make landfall as a category two system on Saturday morning.

The tropical cyclone left more than 180,000 homes without power and 170,000 without running water after making landfall on Friday morning.