I know Australia's kind of large

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But I was still a bit surprised to read about another missing backpacker. I mean I haven't heard anything about this guy being missing at all. Obviously they were fairly sure he hadn't gone to Melbourne then.

Normally missing/dead backpackers are fairly big news but I think they were trumped by the kidnapped baby in Melbourne this week.

And the footy last week, sad as that is to say...