00:00After exhausting all options, the search party for Little Gus departs this remote outback station.
00:09Our thoughts are with Gus and his family. We would love to have resolution to this matter, but not any more than the family would themselves.
00:17Over the past four days, police, army personnel, SES volunteers, trackers and local property owners have extensively searched 95 square kilometres on foot,
00:28desperately trying to find any trace of the missing four-year-old.
00:32The Premier says he's proud of the search efforts over the past three weeks since Gus disappeared from the family homestead on September 27.
00:40It's really a demonstration of the value that we put on life here in South Australia.
00:44No matter where you are or where you come from, we pay us a high value on life and we'll throw any resources that we can at trying to find any young child in these types of circumstances.
00:56The only lead police have had over the past 21 days was the discovery of a single footprint found about 500 metres from the homestead.
01:04Police say it was a similar boot pattern to what Gus had been wearing.
01:08Despite two separate searches involving air, ground and water operations across an estimated 470 square kilometres, nothing more has been found.
01:18Since the search resumed on Tuesday, authorities have faced scorching, dry and windy conditions, with crews walking up to 25 kilometres per day,
01:28vowing to leave no stone unturned in the search for little Gus.
01:32We still have some hope that maybe we can have a happy ending here, but of course it's pretty difficult at the moment.
01:40SA Police say further searches of the property will be considered in the future and investigations by Task Force Horizon continue.
01:48What's the case for?
01:50What's the case for?
01:52Why are youļæ½ėized?
01:54How do you think we can?
01:56It's pretty tricky.
01:58What's the case for?
02:00How do you think we need to know that the weather is about 5 o'clock?
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