With Tropical Cyclone Alfred bringing ocean swells, destructive winds and torrential rain, event organisers are faced with the difficult decision of postponing or cancelling events in south-east Queensland.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the south-east Queensland coast later this week, bringing significant wind, rain and coastal impacts.

The weather system is expected to hit the coastline on Thursday evening as a category two system with damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

It will be the first time the south-east has been in the direct firing line of a tropical cyclone in several decades.

Travellers have been warned to watch for updates amid the impending landfall of severe Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Millions of Australians across Queensland and northern New South Wales are preparing for Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which is expected to make landfall within the next 72 hours. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued warnings for severe weather conditions,

Acting mayor Donna Gates says tropical cyclone Alfred "might be the most significant system" for the Gold Coast since 1954.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit Australia’s east coast later this week. Here's where it is likely to strike.

Millions of residents along Australia’s east coast are on high alert for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

As tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall in Queensland later this week, councils in the state’s southeast have begun to reduce services including ferries and kerbside collection. The cyclone is currently approximately 560 kilometres off the east coast of the state,