Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mcxplatform.com.au. NS
Answer
mcxplatform.com.au. 5 NS pdns10.domaincontrol.com.
mcxplatform.com.au. 5 NS pdns09.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0