A Tasmanian radio host has been suspended after making a shocking joke about the Dreamworld tragedy on air.

COMMENT: The idea of re-opening Dreamworld today was crass and thoughtless. It's incredible that they even considered it, writes Angela Mollard of news.com.

Deborah Thomas, the chief executive of Dreamworld's parent company Ardent Leisure, will give her yearly bonus of $167,500 to the Australian Red Cross.

The mother-in-law of a Dreamworld disaster victim has spoken of the heartbreaking moment her son held his dying partner in his arms.

Dreamworld has cancelled plans for a controversial memorial day just three days after four people died in horrific circumstances at the park.

The grandmother of the Kiwi woman killed in a tragic accident at Dreamworld is avoiding television reports on the horrific accident.

Dreamworld's bosses have been confronted by the fury of victims' family members during a brutally awkward press conference.

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

Amid the horror, the survival of two young children was so remarkable that even hardened police put it down to a miracle.

Family members of the Kiwi woman killed at Dreamworld have rushed to the Gold Coast to support her grieving husband and two young children.

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.

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

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.

A woman who went on a Tinder date with Gable Tostee before he was accused of murdering Warriena Wright has described their meeting as the worst date ever.

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