The Natural Investigative Skills re-visited ‘…The father, however, did not despair, and after some trouble secured the services of two or three aborigines, whose sharp eyes soon picked up the tracks the white men were now unable to follow. They pointed out where the children had slept, where they had stumbled along in the dark, and where an attempt to carry the youngest child had failed, the bearer being too weak to rise with the burden;’ The italic piece above is an exc

The Natural Investigative Skills re-visited [i] The symmetrical beauty of nature is delivered to us in a myriad of ways, sometimes it is the repetitive pattern of a leaf generally indistinguishable amongst millions on a giant tree, each with its lifeblood of veins, or perhaps it is the wings of a butterfly, or the feathers of a bird duplicated either side of its centre line and perfect in almost identical beauty when viewed from either the left or the right. Or maybe it’s i

(The follow up to the original article of 3 Nov 2025 with updates and objectives) Thousands of you visited the first article on LinkedIn and hundreds read the full article on our web site at www.missinginaustralia.com.au In response, I am extremely grateful for your interest in this very important subject. This is not just about ‘no-body, no-parole’, that is already in place and often does not work. This is focussed more on those remorseless apathetic types who have the kn

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