Overview

• NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley provided parliament with a previously unreleased 1993 list identifying 58 missing-person cases reviewed for potential links to Ivan Milat.
• Legalise Cannabis MLC Jeremy Buckingham is pushing for a formal inquiry into the broader scope of Milat’s suspected crimes, and Premier Chris Minns says he would not rule one out.
• The cases span every Australian state and territory and include missing people such as Nancy Grunwaldt, Robyn Hickie, Amanda Robinson, Anna Liva, Lorraine Kessey and Pauline Walter.
• Taskforce Air, formed in 1993, helped secure Milat’s arrest in 1994; he was convicted of seven backpacker murders, refused to cooperate about other cases, and died in 2019.
• Tasmanian police recently searched new bushland for Grunwaldt without result, and members of Milat’s family have publicly rejected claims that he committed additional killings.