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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Susan Chenery

Yvonne Whear vanished from a NSW town. Her daughter believes some people aren’t talking

Yvonne Whear, in a straw hat and coral shirt, looks over her shoulder beside a river
Yvonne Whear disappeared from Dungay in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales in February 2026. Photograph: supplied

The only time Gillian Hallac sees her mother’s face now is on the posters she puts up around town. Yvonne Whear can be seen half-smiling on the counters and walls of shops, cafes and supermarkets.

But it has been six months since Hallac heard her mother’s voice. “It’s like I was talking to her and then she was gone,” she says.

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