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An emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) has been revoked in Cairns.

A fire ripping through a business in the Portsmith area prompted the exclusion zone announcement about 2.25am on Monday.

It has now been revoked, Queensland Police said.

Ray Jones Dr had been closed to traffic, but has since reopened except for one northbound lane.

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There were nine failed calls to Triple-0 as a result of the second Optus outage in a fortnight, according to the telco.

The latest outage in Dapto, Wollongong, put 4500 residents in danger, but Optus has confirmed ev

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