The Japanese encephalitis virus, which is relatively new to Australia, poses a significant health risk to a naïve population.

Australia is bracing for severe flooding as Cyclone Alfred nears, with the rare storm on the country's eastern coast expected to bring torrential rain, destructive winds, and storm surges.

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the most southerly tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

From the Great Gold Coast Cyclone, Wanda and then Zoe, this isn’t the first time a cyclone has come for south-east Queensland and northern NSW.

Experts say infrastructure in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales needs to be built to withstand cyclones.

Leaders have blasted officials for deploying the army to southeast Queensland before the cyclone neared the coast while flood ...

Alfred is forecast to make landfall near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and Australia’s third-largest city. It will be the first tropical cyclone to hit southeast Queensland since a storm ...

open image in gallery Cyclone Alfred path and location as seen on 5 March off Australia's east coast by Brisbane cyclone (Zoom Earth) The last time Brisbane saw a tropical storm reach this close ...

Cyclone Alfred laid bare basic political issues left unaddressed after catastrophic 2022 floods, leaving millions of people ...

While residents of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales are still reeling from the damage, floods, power cutoffs ...

Queenslanders have raised $1.7 million to fight breast cancer despite the cancellation of the iconic Mater Chicks in Pink ...