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The Western Force is reportedly set to be the Australian franchise axed from next year's Super Rugby competition if SANZAAR pushes forward with a proposed restructure.

An announcement on the restructure is expected this week.

McGrath said the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) needs to protect its' five Super Rugby teams even if it means forging a new competition with sides from New Zealand and Asia.

McGrath oversaw the introduction of the Melbourne Rebels into Super Rugby in 2011, Australia's fifth side.

Terry Pareja, from the Philippines, was visiting relatives when he became ill a month ago, according to his daughter, Jeffmarey Pareja.

The family believes Mr Pareja's bug was caused by a spider bite, but doctors have said this link is not supported by evidence.

"It's eating him alive, literally," Ms Pareja told the BBC.

"He needs to stay in hospital for about 12 to 18 months."

She said Mr Pareja, 65, had been diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis.

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Debbie has now blown out over the Tasman Sea after bringing a deluge of rain down the eastern coast from its impact point in Queensland.

Flood alerts remain, crops have been submerged and the bill may run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

A third body was found in Queensland on Saturday afternoon.

Seventy-seven-year-old Nelson Raebel died in the floodwaters in Logan, south of Brisbane.

Several people remain missing.

Flood records have broken in the town and there are a significant number of people needing flood rescue in the area.

The State Emergency Service (SES) has managed to get rescue planes in the air, but winds of between 50 and 90 kilometres per hour may be hindering the attempts.

The SES has made 220 rescues and is facing 100 outstanding rescues in the region and has warned people to cooperate and stay out of floodwaters, which are at "unprecedented" levels across the north coast.

Overnight, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology predicted Cyclone Debbie would make landfall as a category 4 tropical cyclone - just one stage below the most dangerous wind speed level.

The state government last night warned 25,000 people living in parts of Mackay to head to higher ground, as dangerous tidal surges of up to 1.7m were forecast.

The storm, which forecasters expect to cause serious damage to parts of the east coast of Australia, is set to make landfall on Tuesday morning local time.

The Whitsunday Islands, Townsville and Ayr are all expected to be affected by destructive weather, which includes extremely strong wind, torrential rain and flooding.

Police officers and emergency service volunteers have been going to homes, hostels and hotels, telling people in affected areas to evacuate.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has warned the storm will be the worst since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.

The system is about 400 km off Townsville and is due to intensify into a category four system and cross the coast just south of Ayr about 8am Tuesday (local time).

Evacuation orders are in place for low-lying areas in parts of the Burdekin, Whitsunday, and parts Townsville council regions.

"You're going to see people without power for some time, large trees down, roofs damaged," meteorologist Adam Blazak said.

Their mother, Rachael Moore, had been shot in the arm by her ex-husband Daryl Fields.

"I hid the gun ... and ran back in and he was on top of my mother strangling her," Cameron said.

"So then I went up and hit him across the head."

Everyone helped.

"My brother Jayden got him off my mum. My younger sister Kaylea took mum out and hid her in the yard and the youngest boy Zane — he went and took my little baby sister Samantha and hid her under the bed."