 You're going to have to get footage on this later on on the desk here with you. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks very much for coming along this afternoon. Just by way of introductions, I'd just like to introduce you to Alison's parents. To my right we have Mr Jeff Dickie, that's GEO, Jeff's wife, Priscilla, P-R-I-S-C-I-W-L-A, and the spelling of the surname is Dickie, D-I-C-K-I-E. To the end we have Acting Detective Inspector Mal Gundry, that's G-U-N-D-R-Y, from the Brisbane West District. Mal is the manager of this investigation, and myself is Mark Ainsworth, Detective Superintendent from the Regional Crime Coordinator at Metro North. The way we'd like to conduct this conference this afternoon is Mr and Mrs Dickie have prepared statements they would like to read out. At this time they don't wish to answer any questions from the media, but they do have prepared statements, which they'd like to read out on behalf of themselves and the family. So at the conclusion of that, the police officers would like to make an appeal for some public assistance as well. Just start off with Jeff then, if that's okay with her a bit. Okay. Alison, if you're watching or hearing this release, please contact the police or your family. We love you very much. Family and friends of our beautiful daughter, Alison, would like to appeal to the residents of Brookfield and surrounding areas to conduct a search of their properties and report anything, no matter how small or incidental. It may seem that all the pieces fit, no matter how small the evidence. If you have anything to support, please contact the incident control room at the Brookfield show grounds or Crime Stoppers. We would be extremely grateful for your support and at this moment we need all your support. We sincerely want to thank all the dedicated police officers of the Queensland Police Service for all the manpower and resources that have been committed to the search. All say to the SES and all the other volunteers that have been out searching Brookfield. Police have had bad press in the past, but if you were out at Brookfield show grounds and just seen what the police do, it's unbelievable. We are overwhelmed by the support in trying to locate Alison. Please help us, because there are three beautiful little girls of Alison wanting to see their mother as soon as possible. Thank you very much. As a mother, please, please help us define our dear Alison. Lives will never be the same. We must find her. We must find her. She's so precious and she's just so loving. We desperately need your support. We need everyone's support. Please, please help us. Thank you. Thank you very much. Did you want to stay? Did you want to stay? Did you want to go out? No, we're still... Do you want to stay? No, we're still... Ladies and gentlemen, as you're aware, the police have devoted a significant amount of resources to this missing person investigation. It was the stipulator this time that the investigation still remains a missing person investigation. As you've seen, the Brookfield show grounds, we have a forward command post, which is manned by police continually, and searches have been conducted in a systematic manner utilizing police service resources and the SES who have done a marvellous job over the weekend. We have a major incident room running at the Indooroopilly CIB. We're all pieces of information coming from the public through crime stoppers, and information forwarded to the forward command post at Brookfield are being run out. As Geoff mentioned, we're seeking the assistance from anyone that may live in the Brookfield area, the nearby Sarans, that live on acreage. As you'd be aware, some of the acreage out there is quite rough overgrown. If you can please take the time to have a look at your properties, and if you find anything at all that you think may assist this investigation, if you can please contact crime stoppers. It'll be much appreciated. If you live next to areas where the houses or properties are vacant, if you can notify crime stoppers of that as well, and if you can be fed back to the major incident room, it should assist greatly in the search of the area that's been conducted. Mel? We just appeal to anyone out at the Brookfield area, or anyone that has any information if they can contact crime stoppers in all action of this matter. As is the way up on the data policy speed. The information that we have is Alison's husband reported as a missing person. He reported her. The situation was Alison's husband reported Alison as a missing person who had not returned from an early morning walk. That was reported to us early on Friday morning, and as a result of that report, we've conducted numerous investigations and inquiries, and those inquiries and investigations are still continuing, as is the search for Alison. Did you make the walk on a Friday? Was there any missing? Friday morning. Is it out of character? Very much out of character. As you can imagine, for any parents out there or mothers in particular to go away from three young daughters for a prolonged period of time without any contact, what I suggest is quite unusual. Does your appeal suggest you found nothing in terms of clues at the stage? I can't really comment on that at this stage. All I can say is that we're putting in as many resources to this matter as we can. There have been a number of people interviewed and spoken to. A significant amount of public information has been forwarded through crime stoppers, which is being run out at the Indooroop Criminal Investigation Branch, so we'll continue to do so. We've heard reports that Alison's husband's being treated as a suspect. Can you confirm that? That report's not entirely correct. As I said, there's a number of leads we're following. There's multiple people that we have spoken to and interviewed. Her husband was the person that reported Alison missing. There has been numerous inquiries with numerous people being conducted at this time. He's not a person of interest. Is the area... I'm not familiar with the area. Are there lots of waterways and dams? The Brookfield area is quite a nice area. It used to be a gold mining area years ago. There are a number of mines in the area, which still exist in that particular area. It's a semi-rural type area. There's a lot of residential properties there, acreage type properties. And there's creeks, there's dams. You name it, we have it out in that area like a typical rural setting. A lot of bushland overgrown. As I said, we'll continue our searches out there until we're satisfied that we've exhausted searching that whole area. From our investigations, we believe that it was a regular occurrence. We're unsure about the distance, around the Brookfield area, around the Brookfield State School, and at times the Gold Creek Road. There's been no movement on accounts or mobile phone activity or anything like that. That is forming part of our normal missing person investigation. And that's a normal procedure we do with missing people, missing persons inquiries that we normally conduct. How about the young girls? How are they holding up today? Do you know what's going on? Well, nothing's pretty obvious. They do know what's going on. As mentioned by Mr. Mississippi, they're very upset, they're very close to their mother. And it's a very traumatic time for three young people that are very close to their mother and haven't seen her since last Friday morning. Is she on any sort of medication that she may have been working to take in that regard? I can't comment on that, I'm sorry. Is that a fact that you're looking into? That's part of our investigation. Obviously we go right through all the medical history and backgrounds of missing persons. I understand that you said that you do look at things like bank records and that sort of thing. Has there been any movement on that? I can't comment on that, I'm sorry. How much of the area do you think you've completely covered the search on how much is there worth to go? Which at this stage has been ongoing since Friday. The search has also included aerial searches from helicopters with infrared lighting and other lighting areas. We're concentrating on a systematic search of the vicinity of the residents and that's still contending as you've seen today. There's still quite a bit of search area to continue. Has there been a number of people who have been spoken to including Alison's husband? Is there anything at the home that suggested any sort of foul play or...? I'm sorry Andrew, I can't comment on that at this stage. Is there any other details you can offer that might jog someone's memory? Well we can appeal to anyone that may know Alison in the area as she's quite a distinctive looking lady that may have seen her walking or regularly see her walking or exercising in that Brookfield area at any time. I would be particularly interested to talk to them. I would be particularly interested to talk to any of Alison's friends or Alison's family, friends, associates, work colleagues that may have any information that a consistent progress on investigation along to locate Alison. I guess Brookfield is a pretty tight community. Everyone seems to know everyone out there pretty well and there would be people out there that have not come forward at this stage that would know Alison's movements in relation to her exercising, her activities or any other thing that they may think may assist with the investigation. We encourage you to come forward through crime stoppers. Just in terms of if people sort of may or may not have seen someone that day, can you give us a time that you may have seen or what you may have been wearing? Well we believe at this stage it was a time before 6am in the morning. We believe that she was wearing a grey tracksuit, white joggers and either a white or dark coloured shirt. Did you have regular walking routes that might be of assistance to people? From what we can ascertain at the moment most of her routes were on the roadway. She wouldn't leave the road and go in the bush area. From what we can ascertain at this stage it's mainly the roadway and as has been mentioned the route is down around the Brookfield Road around the school, not too far. Earlier the press release has said her husband last saw her around ten o'clock about Thursday night, is there anything is there any sort of information between what happened between that period at 10pm and 6am the following morning? Still running out a lot of last sighting information that's occurring so that is ongoing in the present time as you well and truly understand that people's memories are jogged by media releases and that they may think I have seen this lady at this particular time so we're still working on that at this stage. He reported her missing on Friday morning on the Thursday night. This isn't an area where you have a CCCV vision on the roadway or anything like that, might be able to assist you. That's all being run out and being a rural area we're sort of lacking in a bit of that out there in that particular part of Brookfield. And just Jenny it's definitely a missing person investigation still at this stage It's still a missing person investigation at this stage, yes. There is a mobile phone that we're trying to find at the present time. We'd urge any members of the community out there that in searching their properties if they do happen to see a mobile phone on their property is certainly to contact crime stoppers. It may be quite important to the investigation. As far as we know at this stage we're particularly interested in the mobile phone we're unable to comment if there's any other property missing. Well not at this stage and this is why we're making the appeal at this time to try and jog people's memories to come forward. The weekend has occurred and it may have been a way in saving the first day of the working week it's an opportunity for people to think back to what they're doing early hours Friday morning and if they may have seen Alison the photograph here would be great if we can get that out again and it may jog someone's memory and may assist us. Also importantly as Geoff mentioned if Alison is out there and she is listening to this media release or viewing it then strongly urge her to contact her parents and contact police. Thanks very much for your time. There's a photograph here.