Dreamworld CEO Deborah Thomas told a press conference staff are shattered by the events and that her thoughts and prayers are with the families.

Scientists taking a toll of the damage done to the Great Barrier Reef say large parts of formerly pristine coral has died.

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.

The corporation behind Dreamworld could face a multi-million dollar penalty for the incident that killed four people.

A former friend of Gable Tostee's new Kiwi girlfriend is "completely unsurprised" at her new choice of man, saying that she's always pursued celebrity status.

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

Elizabeth Binning is converted to lentils in a French cooking lesson on the Sunshine Coast.

In a lengthy post to a bodybuilding forum four months after Warriena Wright died, Gable Tostee revealed what happened inside his apartment.

Stephanie Holmes eats her way around the Sunshine Coast and is left with a good taste in her mouth.

COMMENT: A young woman is dead. What killed her? Fear. But sadly that is not a crime in the eyes of the law.

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.

Gable Tostee's acquittal over the balcony fall death of Wellington woman Warriena Wright was almost scuttled by an Instagram post.

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

Judge tells jury they should not take Gable Tostee's conduct after Warriena Wright's death into consideration.

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.

There will be no verdict today in the Gable Tostee murder trial after jurors asked for more answers.

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.

Gable Tostee is not the "cartoonish villain" he has been portrayed in the media, and he did not cause the death of New Zealander Warriena Wright, his lawyer claims.

Gable Tostee was a gentleman towards an erratic and odd Warriena Wright in the hour before she died, his lawyer has claimed.

The mother of Kiwi Warriena Wright, who died after falling from the balcony of Gable Tostee's apartment, has criticised the judge in Tostee's murder trial.

The last photos of Kiwi Warriena Wright before she plunged to her death have been tendered to the Brisbane Supreme Court.

Gable Tostee can be heard breathing heavily after Kiwi Warriena Wright disappears from his balcony - then he makes a desperate call.

The final moments of New Zealander Warriena Wright will continue to be heard today by the jury in the murder trial of Gable Tostee.