An ambulance officer's seemingly heartless description of the victims' injuries had social media in uproar.

While he may have harboured his concerns the longest, Jon Armstrong isn't the first person to express fears over the safety of the rides at the theme park.

Dreamworld is set to reopen on Friday after a horror accident killed four people on one of the theme park's rides.

Kiwi Hayley King rode Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride yesterday, just hours before the accident that killed four people.

A Christchurch man has told of his close call with the ill-fated ride after his group let the victims go ahead of them minutes before the four were killed.

It remains unclear what impact the Dreamworld accident will have on the future of parent company behind the theme park: Ardent Leisure.

A Kiwi mum who visited the theme park for her daughter's birthday says the ride involved in yesterday's tragedy malfunctioned when they visited last week.

A Kiwi woman's 10-year-old son watched her die in a horrific accident at a Gold Coast theme park.

Just months ago, a teenager fell from Dreamworld's log ride, suffering gruesome injuries he still hasn't recovered from.

A Kiwi woman was one of four people killed in a horror accident on a Gold Coast theme park ride.

The tragedy at Dreamworld, where four people have died, is the second major incident on a ride at the Queensland theme park in just six months.

Four people have been killed in a horror accident on a Gold Coast theme park ride.

Police have confirmed four people - two men and two women - have been killed after a ride flipped at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.

Dreamworld visitors claimed there were delays on the ride that four people died on and engineers had been called.

Wright's closest friends have written a heartfelt tribute in a bid to "put the pieces of our lives back together".

The Tostee case raises questions about how common death by falling is - and how many such incidents are homicides.

A flight bound for Australia was forced to make a U-turn less than an half an hour into the journey late this afternoon.

A juror almost caused a mistrial in the murder case of a man whose Tinder date fell off his 14th floor balcony after posting about it on Instagram.

The man accused of murdering Kiwi woman Warriena Wright during a Tinder date on the Gold Coast has arrived in court to await the jury's verdict.

The jury charged with hearing the case of murder-accused Gable Tostee are back in court as a verdict has been reached.

The jury in the murder trial of Gable Tostee is entering its fourth day of deliberations after asking a further question of the judge.

COMMENT: A tape recording gave a hungry audience a unique insight into a thoroughly modern murder mystery, writes Phil Vine.

The judge has sent home the jury in the Gable Tostee case after it failed to reach a verdict. Deliberations will enter a third day.

Four injured New Zealand fur seal pups cared for by Sea World staff on the Gold Coast have been released back into the wild after hitching a ride on an RAAF aircraft.

Amira Karroum was beautiful and accomplished, but also lonely: an easy mark for the Islamic State recruiter who lured her to a barbaric death.

After Warriena Wright's death at the foot of Gable Tostee's apartment building, people on both sides of the Tasman asked why and how she got there.

A humpback whale and her calf became entangled in shark nets off Australia's Gold Coast as debate about using the nets heats up.

In 24 hours of chaos and confusion, 16 people were hospitalised on the Gold Coast after taking the same "zombie" drug.

A judge told the jury that they cannot find Gable Tostee guilty of murder just because he called a lawyer and left via the basement after the Kiwi died.

Gable Tostee's drunken decision to press the voice record button on his smartphone could either clear or convict him of murder.