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

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How on earth has the family been able to continue managing the work there, the sheep etc. It's hard daily work keeping ahead with the chores and sheep on such a huge property. It's been three weeks. Have they had any help?
Yes they were described as stoic....in front of others but no doubt they are suffering privately.

I would think that the local community is rallying to help them. I was looking at the Yunta District Hall FB page last night. (I think this may be the community centre that Gus' father helped build.)

Looking at their photos, it seems that there are race meetings, cricket games, children's play sessions (run by RICE - Remote & Isolated Children's Exercise) as opportunities for the families to get together. No doubt there are some with closer personal relationships than others, considering the generations who may have lived in the area and/or who lives closer to each other.

imo

Gus' dad built the Yunta Community Centre, and the family is involved with the local race club. Link
 
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We don't know what Jess is wanting or needing or how she is coping, so it would be wrong to make any kind of assumptions about that. And we don't know what Josh is doing or why. The details of how he spends his time have not been reported, so again, we cannot make assumptions about what he is doing and why. For all we know he could be in constant communication.
My thoughts too. In times of tragedy people usually put past arguments, feelings aside to come together and support each other. Its quite likely Gus's Father is still at the Station searching. I cant imagine that he searched for just one night then left.
 
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Police complete latest phase of search for missing four-year-old Gus​

17 Oct 2025 1:07pm

“Police have today concluded a renewed search of Oak Park Station for four-year-old Gus Lamont who was last seen late on 27 September 2025.”

“The ground search undertaken this week by SA Police, ADF members and SES volunteers at Oak Park Station extended to a 5.5km radius from the homestead. This equates to 95 sqkm searched on foot.

The original search area extended well beyond this with the use of the mounted operations unit and Polair. This area has been estimated at 470 sqkm.

Police had been hopeful the extensive ground searches would uncover any evidence of Gus, but this has not been the case.”

“The family of Gus Lamont have continued to cooperate fully with police and are being supported by a victim contact officer.

The search of Oak Park station has been methodically planned and executed by experts in this field. The search has been reviewed by senior officers not involved in the operation and subject to constant reviews to ensure completeness.

Further searches of the property will be considered in future as Task Force Horizon investigations continue.”




 
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Re DM. I was tracked down by DM for a comment made on Google reviews. DM found another review I had left for a great tradie years earlier. DM phoned the tradie, the tradie phoned me and I phoned the journalist back.
I was also approached by DM after making a comment on a news report on social media. I chose to decline, but I can just imagine how they would have twisted my words to suit the narrative. They're good at finding a way in, a so called "scoop" just for click bait.
 
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Here are 2 clips from DM reporter Karleigh Smith senior reporter. They are both a pretty good run down of what has happened, but also have some good aerial views of the property.

First 1 uploaded 13th October


Second uploaded 16th October

 
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Imo there has been no mention (perhaps they adequately told DM to p#ss off, but I doubt that would stop a story)

My hinky meter is currently wobbly.. . nothing feels ‘adequate’ to me, and I don’t know if that’s even the right adjective.

I get there’s disharmony between Josh & a Grandma - but surely circumstances such as this outweigh those differences.

It baffles me that Jess wouldn’t be wanting / needing the support of her reported partner and father of her missing child (+ one ) Similarly it baffles me that Josh isn’t there with her. He’s reported to have searched one night early on, but he’s not stayed around to be of support to Jess or on hand for any bit of information.


Little Gus should be enjoying the blissfully happy & innocent days of childhood. Wherever he is now, my thoughts and prayers are with him in his journey.
I've been in crime threads for while @Warshawski and I don't recall your hinky metre going off before.
 
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This actually disappoints me.

Until Pheobe went missing, her mother & family were unknowns (like most of us) but seems (IMO) that they’ve become front page ‘celebrity news’ at the expense of Pheobe’s passing.

I have no problem with them reaching out to support others e.g. Gus’s family, but my question is - how does the Daily Mail know about it ?

Given how silent & private Gus’s family have been, I struggle to see them being the mouth piece for this, who knows.

Am now wondering what the DM pay rate is ?

Yeah well, no use to me as I have absolutely nothing of interest to spill 😜
Phoebe's mum Kylie Johnson wrote an open letter to Gus' family on her public Facebook page.

She intended to publish it to a wide enough audience to get to Gus' family.

The Daily Mail doesn't pay for tips, not does News Corp or I imagine any other MSM outlet.

The reason they don't pay for tips is that it is unethical and major journalist competitions won't allow entries that do not follow this criteria. So say if you've written a brilliant article and your wanting to win a Walkley you have to agree to an undertaking of journalistic integrity and that includes not paying for tips.

"Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism are presented annually in Australia to recognise and reward the best in the craft. Finalists are selected by eminent journalists and photographers and overall winners judged by the Walkley Judging Board."


The only producers who pay are the Spotlight / Current Affairs type shows that run the TV interviews.

Afaik
 
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Awhile back I saw this event mentioned once by a poster elsewhere, and it hasn't been brought up since. That in the nearby town of Yunta there was a car rally being held the weekend of Gus's disappearance. Just an interesting point. Log into Facebook re. Lunchbox Rally an annual big event.
 
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Awhile back I saw this event mentioned once by a poster elsewhere, and it hasn't been brought up since. That in the nearby town of Yunta there was a car rally being held the weekend of Gus's disappearance. Just an interesting point. Log into Facebook re. Lunchbox Rally an annual big event.

I think it actually arrived in Yunta 2 days after Gus disappeared (29th September). It was the Arkoola Station (further north) to Yunta segment of the rally.

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Lunchbox Rally
 
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I think it actually arrived in Yunta 2 days after Gus disappeared (29th September). It was the Arkoola Station (further north) to Yunta segment of the rally.

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Lunchbox Rally
Oh ok, I just thought alot of people in that event and one possibility if they were around right on the day of Gus's disappearance.
 
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Awhile back I saw this event mentioned once by a poster elsewhere, and it hasn't been brought up since. That in the nearby town of Yunta there was a car rally being held the weekend of Gus's disappearance. Just an interesting point. Log into Facebook re. Lunchbox Rally an annual big event.
Yes there was a rally that stopped overnight in Yunta. But their journeys never went anywhere near Oak Park Station nor were they in Yunta until the 29th September. Gus went missing 27th September.

They took off from Arkaroola on the 28th September heading for Yunta arriving on 29th September. 30th September left Yunta to head to Broken Hill.
 

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Yes there was a rally that stopped overnight in Yunta. But their journeys never went anywhere near Oak Park Station nor were they in Yunta until the 29th September. Gus went missing 27th September.

They took off from Arkaroola on the 28th September heading for Yunta arriving on 29th September. 30th September left Yunta to head to Broken Hill.
Ah! Ok thanks for the additional info.
 
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I know that there was some discussion about this earlier in the thread, but didn't the police say he had never left the property? I know some people were interpreting that as he had never left on his own or he had never wandered off, but what if he meant he had little never left the property? Maybe no one outside the family has really ever seen him.
I think little Gus has other relatives; extended family. Perhaps like many families they celebrate Christmas together or have family BBQs. He may have cousins, uncles or aunts also, like many children do.

And his one and only released picture features what looks like a kindy / daycare or preschool in the background. Imo

We also know from a number of news reports that Gus was known to visit his dad at a property 100 km away from Oak Park, and we saw his bike at dad Josh's property.

I'm not sure of the frequency of those visits at his father's house.

All IMO

Gus may have visited health providers such as a GP when he is sick, or a maternal health nurse to monitor his development, like most Australian children.

Imo
 
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lol I meant the human kind of black sheep.
Yes I still question the red sand pile....but one would think they checked that immediately. Maybe it's compacted and solid.

duh me lol
 
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Imo there has been no mention (perhaps they adequately told DM to p#ss off, but I doubt that would stop a story)

My hinky meter is currently wobbly.. . nothing feels ‘adequate’ to me, and I don’t know if that’s even the right adjective.

I get there’s disharmony between Josh & a Grandma - but surely circumstances such as this outweigh those differences.

It baffles me that Jess wouldn’t be wanting / needing the support of her reported partner and father of her missing child (+ one ) Similarly it baffles me that Josh isn’t there with her. He’s reported to have searched one night early on, but he’s not stayed around to be of support to Jess or on hand for any bit of information.


Little Gus should be enjoying the blissfully happy & innocent days of childhood. Wherever he is now, my thoughts and prayers are with him in his journey.
My Opinion Only:

Well, it has been reported before that Josh doesn't live with his little family on the Oak Park Rd station due to "family clashes" with Gus' grandparent Josie.

The Daily Mail has been told that while Josh and Jess remained a couple, he does not live on the station because of family clashes with Jess's transgender parent, Josie.

I'm curious as to what exactly "family clashes" means. It could mean a lot of things. Something bad enough to keep Josh away from his family, obviously. Is it possible that Josh has been banned from the station?

Is it is possible that there might have been coercive control or another form of family violence involved? Family violence doesn't just mean hitting someone, it can be a whole range of actions of non-physical abuse as well.

It was mentioned in an article yesterday that Josh had been fixing up his house so that Jess & the kids could come and live with him there.

In the lead up to Gus Lamont's disappearance, the heartbroken father of the missing four-year-old had been painstakingly renovating a house in a nearby town, preparing it for his young family to move into before the little boy vanished.

Friends say the devoted dad was counting down the months until Gus began school, eager to create a stable home life after years of living between two properties.


If this is true, it must mean the move was going to happen by January next year, in order for little Gus to start the school year. If so, the deadline was approaching relatively fast.

I wonder what Gus' aging grandparents would have thought of the move? I'd imagine the family's work on the property would be sorely missed - it has been reported that they are used to and prefer isolation, so I doubt they employ workers on a day-to-day basis. Seasonal, perhaps. But I'd assume the day-to-day operations are run by the family only.

Is Jess an only child?

In my opinion it could have been planned for Jess, and eventually Gus & Ronnie to take over the family property when the time was right. Which would be in the relatively near future, in my opinion. Surely they were planning for the family station to continue?

Continuing on with my postulation - I also assume that since they had spent their lives on the property, preferring the isolation, that they would have wanted to continue staying there well into old age. Age waits for no one - there would come a point in the near future where they could no longer operate the station without younger family members taking over.

It's possible (hypothetically) that there were two different ideas about where the future was headed.

The most dangerous time for someone to leave an abusive relationship (whether family or intimate partner), centers around the period of leaving.
The time of separation is particularly dangerous for many victims.

Perpetrators who experience a loss of control at this point may try to regain it through escalating forms of violence. In some cases this amounts to the killing of the victim and/or her children as the ultimate act of power and control. Ending an abusive relationship therefore does not necessarily end the abuse. For some victims, it can make it worse.


Well, who knows, I don't know for sure. Just postulating an idea which struck me when I read the article about the family preparing to leave the station. My Opinion Only.
 
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They look to me to be "white" sheep. Sheep are never truly white, at best they're a very dirty white/cream, bordering on grey. Then of course you have other breeds like your dorpers that come with a black head.

well that's confusing lol
I did wonder if they were merely dirty
 
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For those questioning the state of the roads out there, this might give a glimpse into what they are like

I get 'page not available at the moment'.
 
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How on earth has the family been able to continue managing the work there, the sheep etc. It's hard daily work keeping ahead with the chores and sheep on such a huge property. It's been three weeks. Have they had any help?
Yes they were described as stoic....in front of others but no doubt they are suffering privately.
Stoic is how a lot of country people deal with the hardships of remote living. Even with death. (I'm not saying Gus is dead, I'm using it as an example). You just have to keep going.
 
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Imo there has been no mention (perhaps they adequately told DM to p#ss off, but I doubt that would stop a story)

My hinky meter is currently wobbly.. . nothing feels ‘adequate’ to me, and I don’t know if that’s even the right adjective.

I get there’s disharmony between Josh & a Grandma - but surely circumstances such as this outweigh those differences.

It baffles me that Jess wouldn’t be wanting / needing the support of her reported partner and father of her missing child (+ one ) Similarly it baffles me that Josh isn’t there with her. He’s reported to have searched one night early on, but he’s not stayed around to be of support to Jess or on hand for any bit of information.


Little Gus should be enjoying the blissfully happy & innocent days of childhood. Wherever he is now, my thoughts and prayers are with him in his journey.

[bbm]

we don't actually know how often he's been there
 

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