In 2020 there were more than 51,000 missing persons reports made to police in Australia, which is more than 140 on every day of the year. Any person missing for more than three months is classified as a long-term missing person. There are approximately 2,600 long-term missing persons in Australia.

Every one of these missing people leaves behind countless devastated friends and loved ones, some of whom will unfortunately never get any answers or closure about what happened. 

This Missing Persons Week, The Quicky speaks to one of Australia's leading missing persons experts, and a woman who was left devastated after her brother vanished in 2011, to find out what life is like for those left behind and what we can all do to help.

If you have information about a missing person whether you or they are in Australia or overseas, you can call Crime Stoppers at any time on 1800 333 000, or contact the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre on 1800 000 634.

If you would like to help the Missing Person’s Advocacy Network (MPAN) make Missing Person’s Week officially recognised, you can sign the online petition.

You can also reach out to MPAN if you need emotional or practical support to help deal with your own experience of a missing person.

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CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Guests:

Loren O’Keeffe - Founder and CEO of the Missing Persons Advocacy Network who dedicated her life to helping others after her own brother went missing

Jodie McEwan - Coordinator of the AFP’s National Missing Persons Coordination Centre

CONTACT US

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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.