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Staying with the premier, he has promised to keep residents informed about ongoing power outages as the government works with energy providers to restore the power grid.

More than 118,000 homes are without power this morning, with some outages extending to five days.

“That’s a hell of a lot of people without power for a long period of time,” David Crisafulli told ABC Radio this morning.

“Now, the majority of people will get [power] quite soon, actually. For others, it’s still a few days away, and that’s incredibly frustrating.”

He added government and electricity providers were “throwing everything at this” and “working around the clock” to turn the lights back on for those affected.

“So there’s 2000 staff, 800 of whom are from Ergon from the other end of the state, who are pre-positioned here to work,” Crisafulli said.

The premier said residents looking for information about power outages could consult Energex’s website.

“If there’s anything more that people think we can do to articulate that stuff … of course, we’ll do that,” he said.

“I can assure you there won’t be a Queenslander left behind.”