Far North Queensland faces months-long clean up in Cyclone Jasper's aftermath

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The massive cleanup following Cyclone Jasper is underway in Far North Queensland, but flood warnings persist, leaving some areas inaccessible, with the anticipated cleanup being months.
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00:00 All of the beaches have been bashed, no doubt there, but Machen, Shilkes and Holloway are
00:06 particularly vulnerable because they do get cut off and they've been cut off for four or five days
00:12 now. So it starts to be a problem with they don't have power, lots of them don't have communication
00:19 and some of them don't have water as well. It has receded substantially but they still can't
00:26 get out and we think some of those areas it will be at least another day.
00:30 Recovery will go on for months and months.
00:32 Landslide
00:39 and this is the small one, there's a bigger one behind it.
00:51 Ellis Beach

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