2021 MEDIA
The Conversation, 26th November 2021
Media interest can invite the public into the investigative process. But rolling media coverage can have an immediate and long-lasting effect on the families left behind.
Financial Review, 6th August 2021
For the grieving families of the 2600 Australians who have been missing for years, moving on isn’t an option – either emotionally or in the eyes of the law.
ABC News, 16th August 2021
On eve of National Missing Persons Week advocacy groups want federal government recognition to help ease the burden on families of missing loved ones.
The Age, 1st August 2021
“You’re loved. You’re supported. We have so much love for you, and all we would like is for you to be safe.” That is what Bienvenue Manirakiza would say if his brother, Eimable, were to call him after having been missing for five weeks.
ABC News, 31st July 2021
Family and friends of a missing mother from Caboolture are using a billboard to remind the community her loved ones are desperate for any clues that will help find Amy Schulkins, who vanished on December 30.
The Australian, 31st July 2021
Rich Williams, aka the “Free Billion Dollar Man”, is on a mission to give away money.
BBC World Service, 15th July 2021
Loren O’Keeffe spent years searching the vastness of Australia for her brother Dan who vanished a decade ago. She now works to help families of other long-term missing persons.
ABC News, 9th July 2021
Queensland parents Lee and Allan Schulkins have driven thousands of kilometres, scoured dirt tracks, got lost in bushland and dragged an entire river with sonar in their desperate search for their daughter, who vanished six months ago.
Stawell News, 3rd June 2021
A group of students and their lecturers at Murdoch University will work with The Missed Foundation in the hope of finding answers about the 1977 cold case of Stawell man Russell Martin.
ABC TV and iview, 26th May 2021
Families of seven long term missing Australians give the public are powerful insight into what it’s like to live with not knowing, on the award-winning ABC program that asks the awkward questions.
Daily Mail, 27th May 2021
The sister of a missing man who vanished without a trace has revealed how years of mystery phone calls gave her hope her beloved brother was still alive – but they were in fact from a cruel prisoner taunting the family.
Tumut and Adelong Times, 28th May 2021
The story of missing teenager Niamh Maye has been shared regularly with Australians ever since her disappearance somewhere between Jingellic, Batlow and Tumut in March 2002, but last night the ABC shared a different perspective – that of Ms Maye’s elder sister, Fionnuala Hagerty, and their family.
ABC News, 26th April 2021
A RECENT coronial inquest reveals the catastrophic errors made by NSW Police which left teenager Ursula Barwick’s fate a mystery for almost 30 years.
ABC News, 26th April 2021
It took more than three decades for the family of teenager Ursula Barwick to receive the apology it had longed for.
The Stawell Times-News, 31st March 2021
SUNDAY will mark six months since Beverly Roberts first spoke to the Stawell Times-News about her brother, Russell Martin, and the circumstances of his disappearance.
ABC News, 29th January 2021
A LARGE billboard arrived at the weekend featuring the cold case of Stawell’s Russell Martin.