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

[jepop]

'We're still looking for him,' she insisted, while declining offers of assistance in the search effort.
'You can't help. We are still dealing with this.”

Gus's 'furious' dad is seen for the first time after son disappeared

The little boy vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide .

www.dailymail.co.uk

Thanks, unfortunately it's paywalled.

 

[Marg944]

Thanks, unfortunately it's paywalled.

Ahh sorry, I should have said, but I can vouch that it was taken from the article.

 

[SharpieAU]

'We're still looking for him,' she insisted, while declining offers of assistance in the search effort.
'You can't help. We are still dealing with this.”

Gus's 'furious' dad is seen for the first time after son disappeared

The little boy vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide .

www.dailymail.co.uk

Thank you for this!

 

[jepop]

Ahh sorry, I should have said, but I can vouch that it was taken from the article.

Thanks @Marg944, I don't doubt it was taken from the article. What it means is open to interpretation though and context (within the article) may help with that.

I could pose all sorts of questions and go down a DM parsing rabbit hole speculating what a context-less quote might signify about JM but no time for it. Will only note by Oct 10th the search was deemed a recovery operation on OaK Park and being dealt with by Police and Task Force professionals. It's not clear what help a daily mail reporter or paper could offer that would be of any value to that. If I had to guess without context, JM is refusing the DM's help not help in general and not the help of professionals and the police. And I'll leave it there. Jmo of course.

ETA I believe Police returned to Oak Park a few days after this report was published to carry out a second intensive foot search, expanding out the perimeter to approx 5.5km (which in the Feb 5 presser was said to cover 94 square KMS)

DM article was 10th Oct, Expanded foot search Oct 14th to 16th.

From September 27 to now: How the Gus Lamont story has unfolded

It is now more than four months since Gus Lamont went missing from his family's home in South Australia's outback, with the case being declared a major crime on Thursday. Here's what has happened so far.

www.abc.net.au

 

[AmoryK]

Has this new article been posted yet?:

Why cops switched the hunt for body of Gus to a vast new search area

A cadaver dog, a police helicopter, and Taskforce Horizon detectives converged on Bullyaninnie Station near Oodla Wirra in the South Australian Outback on February 16.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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[Ellery84]

I thought that was Shannon's parents?

No. It’s Josie’s parents. <modsnip>

 

[Marg944]

The “very private”” family mentioned back in early October is mentioned again in this recent article.



“Police have said the family is “very private”, people who, according to Superintendent Mark Syrus, “like the isolation” of their rural homestead life.

They’re a very private family, and they don’t get many visitors up here,” he said on October 1.

“It’s very tough for them. They like the isolation, and over the last six days, they’ve had over 100 people in the area being part of their lives.

“We gave them space because that’s what they needed, just a bit of time to rationalise what has happened and to come to terms with it.”

‘Very private’: Why Gus’ family have stayed quiet

Since four-year-old Gus Lamont went missing, his family have remained almost silent. Now, one of them is a suspect.

thenightly.com.au

 

[Ruminations]

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“Police have said the family is “very private” [..........]

“We gave them space because that’s what they needed, just a bit of time to rationalise what has happened and to come to terms with it.”

‘Very private’: Why Gus’ family have stayed quiet

Since four-year-old Gus Lamont went missing, his family have remained almost silent. Now, one of them is a suspect.

thenightly.com.au

I'm a little tweaked by the quote being that the family has to rationalize and come to terms with what has happened, rather than rationalize and come to terms with what is unknown.

MOO