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Annastacia Palaszczuk has come under fire after promoting a new ride being debuted by Dreamworld, five years on from the fatal Thunder River Rapids tragedy.

Queensland's premier took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce the Gold Coast amusement park had added another roller coaster to its list of attractions.

'Dreamworld's new $32 million rollercoaster is officially open,' she wrote. 

'The brand new Steel Taipan rollercoaster was unveiled today as Dreamworld celebrates its 40th birthday. The thrill ride features the first rear spinning gondola in the world, the Tailwhip 360⁰.'

Annastacia Palaszczuk (pictured) has been slammed for spruiking a new $32million rollercoaster at Dreamworld 

But some felt it was still too soon after the 2016 tragedy for the Premier to be promoting Dreamworld's rides.

On October 25, 2016, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett, his partner Roozi Araghi, and NSW mother Cindy Low were killed when their raft hit another and flipped, leaving them trapped underwater in the mechanism.

'This Dreamworld?' one man wrote in response to the Premier's tweet, alongside an image of a media report about the incident. 

'Are ride operators trained in safety procedures this time round?' another wrote.

'I can't believe you didn't shut down this theme park from the sinister and deadly event that took place,' someone else said. 

'Is that the Dreamworld that killed 4 people then blamed it on a low paid 18ish year old girl who was untrained and on her 1st day of work? That Dreamworld?' a fourth wrote.

Ms Palaszczuk announced the amusement park's new Steel Taipan (pictured) rollercoaster was now officially open 

Others questioned what role the government played in funding the rollercoaster and in helping keep the troubled park open after the notorious incident. 

'Didn't the Government (Treasury Corporation) have to stump up $10 million for them for continued operating costs?' one man asked. 

'Yeah the QLD government paid for that [new] ride,' another said.

Dreamworld's parent company Ardent Leisure were ordered to pay $3.6million in fines after pleading guilty to safety charges over the tragedy in September 2020.

The tragedy unfolded when a water pump malfunctioned causing water levels in the ride to fall dangerously low.

The victims' raft collided with another after becoming stuck in the low water.

It partially flipped, flinging the group into the mechanised conveyor that moved the rafts.

Four people tragically died at Dreamworld (pictured) when a ride malfunctioned in 2016. The theme park's parent company Ardent Leisure was ordered to pay $3.6million after pleading guilty to safety charges 

Outraged Queenslanders questioned why the premier was spruiking the amusement park 

One person asked whether the amusement park had improved its safety mechanisms since the accident

Ms Goodchild's 12-year-old daughter and Ms Low's 10-year-old son were both in the raft during the horrific accident that killed their mothers, but escaped uninjured. 

The malfunction was the third that day and the fifth in a week, and no automated shutdown function was installed despite recommendations. 

During Ardent Leisure's sentencing hearing, Workplace Health and Safety said the company failed to provide and maintain safe plant and structures and systems of work at the Gold Coast theme park.  

The company also failed to provide information, training, instruction or supervision necessary to protect people from risk.  

The Dreamworld outcry comes after just hours after the Palaszczuk government backflipped on its decision to force passengers on two planes to spend Christmas in isolation after a Covid case travelled on both flights. 

Queensland Health on Tuesday evening said passengers on flights VA1105 from Newcastle to Brisbane and VA375 from Brisbane to Townsville, both on Monday, December 13, were close contacts and would need to isolate until December 27. 

The decision - which would have ruined Christmas for the hundreds of passengers - sparked outrage, including from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Kate Goodchild (née Dorsett), 32, (right) and her brother Luke Dorsett (left) were killed when Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids malfunctioned in October 2016

Dreamworld's parent company was sued $3million over the incident which took the lives of Roozi Araghi (left) and Cindy Low (right)

Queensland Emergency Services personnel at the Thunder River Rapids ride in Dreamworld on the day of the tragedy  

Hours later, on Wednesday morning, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announced travellers on the flights would be instead classified as casual contacts, rather than close, meaning they would be tested and released from quarantine.

The decision to force the passengers into isolation erupted on Wednesday morning, with Prime Minister and other prominent Australians weighing into the controversy.

On Brisbane radio this morning, Mr Morrison urged the Queensland government to reunite passengers with their families.

'PCR testing, being able to look at ways to ensure people be able to join their families before Christmas, I would hope, is a very high priority for them,' he told Spencer Howson on 4BC.

Sales, the host of ABC's current affairs 7.30 program, was quick to ask why Queensland ordered hundreds of travellers on board two Virgin flights into 14 days of isolation after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.

Passengers on board flights VA1105 from Newcastle to Brisbane and VA375 from Brisbane to Townsville, both on Monday, December 13, were close contacts of the positive case and will need to isolate until December 27, ruining their Christmas

It's not the first time the ABC's 7.30 presenter has weighed in on the Covid policies of state governments and health authorities

'Flights have been going between NSW and Vic for months - has there been a single superspreader event on a flight relating to a Covid case?' tweeted Sales.

'What is the basis of Qld locking up planeloads of vaxed people for Christmas without warning or precedent?'

Meanwhile, Grimshaw, the host of Nine's A Current Affair, pointed out the hypocrisy of the Prime Minister being able to move around the state while travellers on the plane were forced to isolate for two weeks.

'The PM is a casual contact, double vaxxed, two negative tests and free to enter and move around QLD,' Grimshaw Tweeted.

'But a planeload of double vaxxed almost all casual contacts are locked in Xmas quarantine for 2 wks regardless of tests.

'Rules have to make sense or people will reject them.'