Four-year-old Gus Lamont disappeared from his homestead into the Australian outback. Two months on, questions remain

When a four-year-old child disappeared in the vast, brutal Australian outback, the response was swift and broad ranging.

It’s now been two months since Gus Lamont, a blond, curly haired child described as both shy and adventurous, went missing from his family’s homestead in a remote part of South Australia .

The 60,000 hectare Oak Park Station is about 40km from the nearest town, Yunta – population 60. Yunta is about 300km inland from SA’s capital, Adelaide.

At 5pm on Saturday 27 September, Gus was playing on a mound of dirt at the family sheep station.

When his grandmother went to call him inside 30 minutes later, he was gone.

An extensive police search failed to find him, and was scaled back in early October.

Police had prepared Gus’s family for bad news. He may not have surviv