North Queensland braces for Tropical Cyclone Debbie

Updated March 28 2017 - 3:18pm, first published 3:11pm
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 08:  Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk   on November 8, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia.  (Photo by Robert Shakespeare/Fairfax Media) Photo: Robert Shakespeare
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 08: Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on November 8, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Robert Shakespeare/Fairfax Media) Photo: Robert Shakespeare

Powerful wind gusts with speeds of up to 178 kilometres per hour have already battered Hamilton Island as tropical Cyclone Debbie gathered intensity and hurtled toward's Queensland's northern coast.

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