Police have tracked down Zlatko Sikorsky, the man wanted over the discovery of a woman's body in a barrel south of Brisbane. He is believed to be alone inside a Sunshine Coast unit.

The son of fugitive businessman Clive Mensink tells a Brisbane court he deliberately cut his WhatsApp link to his father, who is "having way too much fun" to return to Australia to face questioning over the Queensland Nickel collapse.

An engineering supervisor at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast tells a coronial inquest the Thunder River Rapids ride "should not have been in service" when it malfunctioned and killed four people.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Clive Palmer "will not get any money from us" after he calls on the State and Federal Governments to help reopen the beleaguered Yabulu nickel refinery.