August 3, 2026 — 3:45pm

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Alarm bells started ringing as soon as Gillian Hallac walked into her mother’s home on a Friday almost six months ago. Having not heard from her mother, Yvonne Whear, since the day before, Hallac went looking for her at the 73-year-old’s hobby farm on the outskirts of Dungay, a small town near the NSW-Queensland border.

Whear is a private person most comfortable in the company of her animals, but kept in almost daily contact with her close family; to have not heard from her for almost two days uncommon. More…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU