Significant damage and power outages are possible in the densely populated region of Queensland, where tropical cyclones impacts are not uncommon but direct landfalls are.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred changes track towards the mainland, with damaging winds and heavy rainfall expected to be felt from tomorrow. Here's how Tuesday unfolded.

A body has been found amid a search for a missing elderly man who was swept away in floodwaters near Dorrigo in New South Wales as Alfred lashed Australia’s eastern coast with heavy rains. Two Australian states have been swamped by flooding as the storm continued to linger off the coast of Queensland,