The discovery of a small footprint is providing a glimmer of hope before the search for a preschooler on an outback homestead becomes a grim recovery operation.

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Four-year-old August, known as Gus, disappeared from his family's sheep station in the remote South Australian mid-north on Saturday afternoon.

Alone in searing temperatures and without food or water, authorities' best-case scenario is Gus has crawled into shelter and is waiting to be rescued from the property near Yunta, about 300km north of Adelaide.

In a significant development, a footprint was found on Tuesday night, buoying tireless searchers who have worked day and night to br

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