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.

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

Four men and women were just looking for a good time at a Gold Coast theme park yesterday but it all turned deadly.

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.

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.

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 in the Gable Tostee trial have ended a third day of deliberations without a verdict.

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.

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.

Neighbour of man charged with murdering Kiwi tourist, who he met on Tinder, says she heard what sounded like a man and woman fighting in the apartment above.

A Queensland toddler bitten by one of the world's deadliest snakes will need care for the rest of his life, his father says.

A father who filmed a viral video of his 5-year-old son performing burnouts is now being investigated by Australian child protection services.

Corazon Miller checks into the Kingfisher Bay Resort on Queensland's Fraser Island.