Why are they so many people missing in Australia?

outback country. your on your own.

It is a distorted figure. That figure includes all Missing Persons applications. So whenever someone calls in because their kid has wandered off and the kid is found an hour later it is included in that figure. Whenever a teenager runs away from home to live on the streets it is incuded.

Only a small proportion of that figure are "suspicious". Most of the people turn up safe and well and were never really "missing".

I think there are a few possible answers. One that comes to mind is the activity of Satanists and other such cults, that require live bodies to sacrifice their blood (and killing them in the act) to Satan. I'm sure that's a large part of the number of people (especially children) that go missing in the US every year and are never found.

That must be where Hannibal Lecter moved to when he escaped from prison.

Must be because theyre always telling each other to get lost.

They choose to be away from their previous lives or have just decided to go walkabout