In 2021, Tom Phillips disappeared twice into the bush around Marakopa with his three children. Since then there have been sporadic sightings, a dramatic car chase and an unclaimed $80'000 reward.
And where I'm staying right now, which has family links to the case, well everyone has a theory about the truth, or whatever constitutes it. And locally, it seems we're seeing the birth of a mythological folk hero - the man who took his kids and hid to save them from the modern world of woke indoctrination...
