A youth-led project will unveil Livingstone Shire's first Green Seat at 4pm on Wednesday 28 October at Beaman Park in Yeppoon. The seat is a permanent place for reflection and will carry a QR code linking to missing persons awareness and support information. The Livingstone Youth Action Group drove the project, which brings the national Green Seat Project to the shire. Founder Sally Leydon will attend as a special guest. In 2025, 49,084 people were reported missing to police in Australia, and 56 per cent were aged 13 to 17.
Suzie Ratcliffe is asking Australians to leave a light on tonight in memory of her sister Joanne and her friend Kirste Gordon. The two girls disappeared 53 years ago, in August 1973, during an AFL match at Adelaide Oval. Neither has ever been found. Joanne was 11 and Kirste was four when they left their seats to use the toilet and did not return. Eyewitnesses later told police they saw Joanne screaming and fighting with a person who has never been identified. Suzie says the campaign tells families they are not alone.
A woman and a man have been charged with criminal neglect and concealing human remains after an infant boy was found dead at the Tollgate Motel in Glen Osmond, Adelaide. Police attended for a welfare check on Saturday and said the baby had been dead for some time. A post-mortem estimated the baby was six to seven months old. The pair, aged 40 and 42, have been remanded in custody until May next year. In 2021, the woman had been reported missing in New South Wales with a two-year-old daughter. Police investigation continues.
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Police have identified and confirmed the safety of the owners of a vessel found at Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island. Townsville Water Police earlier appealed for public assistance after the 16-foot green and white fibreglass ski boat was located on 10 October. The boat was found at 5:30pm, and an immediate search of the area was conducted, but no persons associated with the vessel were located.
