Residents are stacking sandbags to protect low-lying properties ahead of a tropical cyclone that is forecast to become the first in 51 years to hit the Australian east coast near Brisbane, the ...

Alfred is expected to become the first cyclone to cross the coast near Brisbane since Cyclone Zoe hit Gold Coast in 1974 and brought widespread flooding. Get the latest breaking news as it happens.

Schools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone approaches Australian coast People watch as huge swells hit the beaches on the Gold Coast, Australia, Thursday, March 6, 2025.

The cyclone was about 335km east of Brisbane and 310km east northeast of the Gold Coast as of early Wednesday afternoon, moving northwest at 16km/h.

He said 68 people had been evacuated from South Stradbroke Island, which lies off the coast between Brisbane and Gold Coast, on Tuesday night and evacuations continued Wednesday.

The coast near the border has been battered for days by abnormally high tides and seas. A 12.3-meter (40-foot) high wave recorded off a popular Gold Coast beach on Wednesday night was a record for ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is forecast to cross the Queensland state coast somewhere between the Sunshine Coast region and the city of Gold Coast to the south early Saturday, Bureau of Meteorology ...