Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[seekingjustice**]

“In a 7NEWS exclusive, it’s been revealed Gus’s grandmother was inside the homestead looking after his young brother at the time the boy went missing, while Gus’s mother and another grandparent were out on the station attending the sheep.”

42K views · 312 reactions | EXCLUSIVE: 7NEWS has new details about the night that four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished on his family's outback property near Yunta. We can reveal what family members were doing when he disappeared. Latest: https://tinyu

EXCLUSIVE: 7NEWS has new details about the night that four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished on his family's outback property near Yunta. We can reveal what family members were doing when he disappeared....

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Perhaps that could be a reason for him to have wandered off, to find his Mum and other grandparent..

 

[kiwi50]

What I don”t understand when watching videos of the soldiers searching is how they appear to walk past all the scrub and bushes and never appear to stop and look under them , some of the scrub looks like there could easily be a body under it.
I expected to see them looking under everything.

 

[bruecbrian290]

That 2nd pile, closer to what might be a 2nd residence, certainly looks fresher, and looser than the other old one we'd been focused on. IMO, it looks soft enough to swallow a 4 year old boy.

I agree that it looks like it could swallow someone so young, especially as at that age you wouldn't think about things like that.


Imo, I think this is the most likely theory for where poor Gus is.
I don't think it is likely for him to have wondered off to find where the sunset goes or where his father is, especially as he doesn't have a history of wandering off.

I do think that it is possible he would have been looking for mum and other grandparent as he may get bored playing by himself or hanging around brother and grandmother inside.

Then again, who knows what he may have been thinking if he did just wander off. No way to know with someone as young as him.

 

[bruecbrian290]

What I don”t understand when watching videos of the soldiers searching is how they appear to walk past all the scrub and bushes and never appear to stop and look under them , some of the scrub looks like there could easily be a body under it.
I expected to see them looking under everything.

There could almost definitely be a little body hidden under most of the scrub, maybe they think they can see through it properly? There is a chance they are able to, its not easy to tell in the videos I have seen, but I still think there is a reason to check, just in case something was missed.

I do find it slightly weird that no one was watching Gus, I know everyone was busy, either with working at the station or looking after brother, but still, leaving a four year old alone.. I did find that on 27th Sep, the sun would have started to set at 6:14pm local time, so maybe grandmother thought there was enough light to still be able to see him or something like that. Can't be sure.

 

[BreakingNews]

What I don”t understand when watching videos of the soldiers searching is how they appear to walk past all the scrub and bushes and never appear to stop and look under them , some of the scrub looks like there could easily be a body under it.
I expected to see them looking under everything.

Agree. Unless they can see through the bushes. However they don't seem to be looking at them.

 

[Lady-J]

Unfortunately no evidence has been found in the new search .

 

[hoodunnit]

What I don”t understand when watching videos of the soldiers searching is how they appear to walk past all the scrub and bushes and never appear to stop and look under them , some of the scrub looks like there could easily be a body under it.
I expected to see them looking under everything.

I was thinking the same thing! The clip I saw, they were all walking together on a visible track; not even deviating from the track into the scrub. Beggers belief.

 

[SouthAussie]

The thing that bothers me about the search is that Gus had a grey hat on, and there is a lot of silver-grey saltbush out there. If Gus' hat had blown in a wind, blown against a saltbush, would they even see it unless they were looking right at it?

(Acknowledging that his hat may not have blown anywhere as many young children's hats are tied under the chin)


When he vanished, Gus was wearing a grey sun hat, light grey long pants, boots and a blue long-sleeve T-shirt featuring a yellow Minion character.

Police resume search for missing boy Gus in SA outback

SA Police and ADF personnel will resume their search for missing four-year-old Gus in South Australia's mid-north tomorrow.

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https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/1271105/Plant-of-the-week-Atriplex-nummularia-Old-Man-Saltbush-1.pdf

 

[SouthAussie]

I was thinking the same thing! The clip I saw, they were all walking together on a visible track; not even deviating from the track into the scrub. Beggers belief.

I think they were probably walking (as a group) to or from their search area in that clip. There are recent photos - over the last few pages - of them doing line searches.

imo

 

[hoodunnit]

That 2nd pile, closer to what might be a 2nd residence, certainly looks fresher, and looser than the other old one we'd been focused on. IMO, it looks soft enough to swallow a 4 year old boy.

I'd be more concerned about the huge drop at the side of the other sand pit, rather than the sand pit itself; No fence/barrier etc. Child could have a really nasty accident there

 

[Lady-J]

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[Lady-J]

Perhaps that could be a reason for him to have wandered off, to find his Mum and other grandparent..

Absolutely!
I just tried to post this link and it didn’t work.
Why weren’t we told this earlier?

 

[SouthAussie]

“In a 7NEWS exclusive, it’s been revealed Gus’s grandmother was inside the homestead looking after his young brother at the time the boy went missing, while Gus’s mother and another grandparent were out on the station attending the sheep.”

42K views · 312 reactions | EXCLUSIVE: 7NEWS has new details about the night that four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished on his family's outback property near Yunta. We can reveal what family members were doing when he disappeared. Latest: https://tinyu

EXCLUSIVE: 7NEWS has new details about the night that four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished on his family's outback property near Yunta. We can reveal what family members were doing when he disappeared....

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Listening to this ... the journo says that the mum and grandparent were 10 km away (looking after the sheep).

(from about the 40 sec mark)

 

[Dotta]

I'd be more concerned about the huge drop at the side of the other sand pit, rather than the sand pit itself; No fence/barrier etc. Child could have a really nasty accident there View attachment 619987

The whole "yard" looks like a safety hazard to me,
it actually looks like a building site or something

JMO

 

[spiritualdreaming]

Yep if the larger salt bushes aren't being checked then something could easily be missed.

How distracted was Shannon with Ronnie? Distracted enough to maybe not hear or see a car arrive and leave in that 30min time span?

How long had the other 2 been away from the homestead for? When did they arrive back or when did they receive word Gus was missing?

 

[seasideForest]

Absolutely!
I just tried to post this link and it didn’t work.
Why weren’t we told this earlier?

It may be frustrating not knowing but nobody owes us the information. MOO

 

[spiritualdreaming]

Absolutely!
I just tried to post this link and it didn’t work.
Why weren’t we told this earlier?

It virtually was told earlier and reported by the advertiser that Shannon was the last person to see Gus. I guess the other 2 didn't need to be mentioned as they simply weren't at the homestead at the time IMO

 

[FromGermany1]

Most of us probably don't want to argue on a daily basis with a little kid who insists on wearing Camo or khaki.

I think, all adults, who are living in such an area for years/even generations, aren't used to fear lost little children and wouldn't understand, why to wear them high visible clothing from head to toe. Probably they themselves had grown up as children near their working parents/grandparents and never got lost earnestly, just as their siblings didn't. Maybe the adults had to yell a bit louder or had to yell a bit longer, but then the "lost" child appeared from somewhere, and every day life could continue like before.

Btw, of course I know the meaning of the term "stoic"; we have the term being "stoisch" in Ger also. But thanks to all, who explained the meaning. When I assumed a possible connection to religion, then because I remembered the family in France, which all seemed to have been stoic despite the disappearing of little lost 2yo boy Emile. Some similarities came to my mind, also that we saw only a few photos (or even non) of the family. - I don't think, that the cases are related - that for clarification.

MOO

 

[seasideForest]

I'd be more concerned about the huge drop at the side of the other sand pit, rather than the sand pit itself; No fence/barrier etc. Child could have a really nasty accident there View attachment 619987

Yes and no. I do casual work on a small mixed farm in a European country so different from the Outback obviously and there are seeming hazards all over the place (the farm children could e.g. touch the electric fence, climb in with the bull in the barn, fall down various flights of stone stairs landing on stone-slabs at the bottom, fall out of the hay barn from the top layer of bales of hay, climb onto the manure pile from the path running along-side and sink into the manure and suffocate for all I know not to mention climb in with the 6 or so mature pigs and be bitten because pigs may be aggressive, or simply walk into the minute shallow stream, trip, land on their faces and drown) but the children grow up with it all, following their parents and other workers around the farm as well as exploring on their own from a very young age - as soon as they can toddle basically - and they simply don't do these hazardous things!! Town children who are visiting - that's a different matter. Their parents have to keep a closer eye on them, the farm even has signs up about that.

Just giving a different perspective.

IMO IME

 

[Dotta]

" 'Hot, harsh’: ​

Searchers battle conditions looking for missing 4yo Gus Lamont.​

'No new evidence'
has been found amid hot and windy outback conditions in the search for a missing four-year-old South Australian boy.

The second day …
has concluded with no evidence being located.

'With temperatures of 36 degrees
and strong northerly winds expected in the search area on (Thursday),
searching is expected to start at sunrise and conclude at midday',
a police spokesperson said on Wednesday afternoon."

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/police-adf-return-to-remote-south-australia-property-in-search-for-missing-4yearold-gus/news-story/6d4d66e66d82611ee2ab848ecbe4d22d