Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on Lovisa Sjoberg being found in New South Wales after nearly two weeks

An Australian woman's been found alive, after going missing in New South Wales' Snowy Mountains for nearly two weeks. 

A multi-agency search started for Lovisa Sjoberg when authorities discovered her hire car had not moved for six days. 

The 48-year-old was found injured and dehydrated by officials on Sunday. 

Australian Correspondent, Donna Demaio told Ryan Bridge it was also found a venomous Copperhead snake had bitten her, four days before being found. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donald Jamayo is our Australia correspondent with US this morning, Donna,
good morning to you. Thousands of retail jobs set to disappear.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh, well, this is terrible news because a major fashion
retailer looks like it's well teetering on the brink of
going broke basically, so it's been placed under voluntary administration.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's a company called Mosaic.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It does run quite a number of long established fashion
stores across Australia. We're talking Miller's, Rivers, Katie's and nony
B and it is going to continue to trade in
the lead up to Christmas, we're being told, but administrators
have been brought in to look into the business.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
This could impact about two.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hundred and fifty jobs at head office in Sydney, but
also two and a half thousand jobs across the nation.
So dreadful news and the lead up to Christmas for
a lot of people who don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
If they'll have a job afterwards.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But the company says well, voluntary administration was unfortunately the
most appropriate way to try to restructure. So they're hanging
on but not sure what the future holds for lots
of people.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's hard out there, double whammy of cost of living
and the move to online shopping. Hey, what is happening?
This story fascinates me. This woman is bitten by a snake.
She's missing and the bush for nearly two weeks and
she survives.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's extraordinary and what a relief for all the people
that were out there searching for her, and for la
Visa Schoburg, a woman who moved to Australia from Sweden
about twenty years ago. Then she moved to the rugged
Snowy Mountains in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
She loves to photograph wild horses out there.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
So she was lost in the Akosiosco National Park for
that amount of time extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
But she's been found. She's a forty eight year old
woman who.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Did get bitten by apparently a copperhead snake, which is venomous,
and then four days later she was found.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
After that bite, she's also.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Rolled at ankle, she's dehydrated, but she's in hospital now
in a stable condition.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
One searcher said it was like.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Looking for, as they put it, a pinhead in a haystack.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
But they did find it very very lucky to be live.
That's what I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Saying, yeah, very lucky. Indeed, a great ending to that story, Donna,
thank you very much for that. Donald Tomorrow Our Australia corresponding. Actually,
there's a story in the US media today about a
guy who went missing for thirty days in the bush
and in a national park in America, and he was
eating berries and you know, whatever water he could find
off leaves and stuff. And he said he was about

(02:29):
to give up and like literally within hours or a
day of death, and he decided to do one last
scream screams, and the park rangers happened to be walking
past in a track nearby, run to his rescue, save him.
He's alive Today. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

(02:51):
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