The threat of a tsunami hitting the east coast of Australia has abated however warnings to stay out of the water remain in place.

Rising seas have been recorded in Norfolk Island, Southport in Tasmania and now Port Kembla in the New South Wales Illawarra, the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC) reports.

Police have charged a woman with the stabbing murder of a man overnight at Wamberal.
 
Shortly after 12.15am today, police from the Brisbane Water Local Area Command and ambulance paramedics were called to a unit in Bundara Avenue.

Police allegedly located the body of a 27-year-old man lying on the floor of the lounge room with a stab wound to the chest.

Central Coast mother Allyson McConnell (nee Meager) has been charged with murdering her two young sons after their bodies were found dead in the bathtub of their Canadian home earlier this month.

Mrs McConnell, 31, from Gosford, was involved in a bitter custody dispute with her Canadian husband, Curtis McConnell.

Police on the Central Coast will prepare a report for the Coroner after a man drowned at North Entrance beach.

It was the second drowning in the region in as many days following the drowning of a fisherman at Copacabana Beach on Friday.