Police have declared that the search for a four-year-old boy missing in the South Australian outback is now in the 'recovery phase,' as rescuers hold little hope of finding him alive.

Alone Australia Season one runner-up Michael Atkinson has explained why little Gus could still be alive.

Police have declared that the search for a four-year-old boy missing in the South Australian outback is now in the 'recovery phase,' as rescuers hold little hope of finding him…

A local goat herder has a 'gut feeling' that Gus is still in area, as the desperate search becomes a recovery mission.

Police will scale back the search for missing four-year-old boy Gus after admitting they still have not found any trace of him.

August 'Gus' Lamont vanished from his grandparents' remote Outback homestead, about 25 miles south of Yunta, north-east of Adelaide , on Saturday afternoon.