Australia Australia (SA) Trisha Graf, 41, Missing from Andamooka since 12 Dec 2025

[nhmemorymaker]

Roxby Downs is the FIFO (fly in, fly out) town for Olympic Dam mining workers. Some miners and their families also live there. BHP built the town. It was a planned town, and is well maintained for the mining workers.

Andamooka is a little outback opal mining town of a couple of hundred people that somehow survives.

imo

dbm just looked up--BHP, huge multinational.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Roxby Downs is the FIFO (fly in, fly out) town for Olympic Dam mining workers. Some miners and their families also live there. BHP built the town. It was a planned town, and is well maintained for the mining workers.

Andamooka is a little outback opal mining town of a couple of hundred people that somehow survives.

imo

learned something new... opal mining.

 

[MollyHarps]

I hope she’s found soon - im just catching up on this thread and it seems LE were pretty slow to take this case seriously.

PS - Thank you to the Australian posters who clarified what thongs were.. over in the UK they are a type of pretty skimpy underwear!

 

[Old Soul]

was it the passenger side that was clicked in? I always do that, so my dog does not continue to sound the alarm.

Yes, apparently the passenger side seatbelt was clicked in.
I believe Trisha and her friend had travelled in the car together so presumably the passenger seat had been used recently.

Not sure if the alleged kangaroo damage to the front passenger side may have had any bearing on the usability of the front passenger seat or affected the seat belt alarm sensor in some way necessitating the reason for having the seatbelt clicked in?

Is it known where in the car and near the car the thongs were found? Driver side or passenger side?

 

[SouthAussie]

Yes, apparently the passenger side seatbelt was clicked in.
I believe Trisha and her friend had travelled in the car together so presumably the passenger seat had been used recently.

Not sure if the alleged kangaroo damage to the front passenger side may have had any bearing on the usability of the front passenger seat or affected the seat belt alarm sensor in some way necessitating the reason for having the seatbelt clicked in?

Is it known where in the car and near the car the thongs were found? Driver side or passenger side?

No, it doesn't say anything more about the position of the thongs.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I hope she’s found soon - im just catching up on this thread and it seems LE were pretty slow to take this case seriously.

PS - Thank you to the Australian posters who clarified what thongs were.. over in the UK they are a type of pretty skimpy underwear!

I travelled in Greece with some Australians and some Brits long ago.... we all got our laughs over thongs.

 

[BreakingNews]

DBM

 

[BreakingNews]

Thongs are easily broken. A blow out is a common phrase for it. Especially if there was an altercation and she was being dragged out of the car. MOO.

 

[Kemug]

In NZ thongs are called jandals.

 

[Kittypoo]

When I was last in that area, Roxby Downs was a very neat, respectable-looking town. Andamooka not. And I'm not sure we can take the friend's word for it that Trisha was not affected by alcohol. But whatever happened, it doesn't sound good.

Yes I wondered the same if she was under the influence. Hitting a kangaroo after leaving a hotel late at night another stop off and her vehicle being found grounded would suggest otherwise. IMO