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Tropical Cyclone Alfred has intensified into a Category 2 system as it moves further south off the Queensland coast.

The sub-tropical excursion taken by the storm is forecast to take a sharp right turn today, with the Bureau of Meteorology expecting Alfred to start moving towards heavily-populated parts of the coast after a week slowly progressing parallel to the coast down through the Coral Sea.

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