Today's headlines include:

Some 80,000 homes and businesses in NSW and Qld are without power as Cyclone Alfred edges closer to land.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged after he allegedly boarded a flight at Melbourne’s Avalon Airport with a gun yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Saudi Arabia next week for U.S-led talks to end the war in Ukraine.

And today’s good news: Several unseen stories by Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will be published later this year.

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Headlines: 80,000 Qld & NSW homes without power