Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig southernphone.net.au. NS
Answer
southernphone.net.au. 5 NS ns3.dnspackage.com.
southernphone.net.au. 5 NS ns2.dnspackage.com.
southernphone.net.au. 5 NS ns1.dnspackage.com.
southernphone.net.au. 5 NS ns4.dnspackage.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0