Queensland family mourns girl found dead after search at rural Tara property

The father of a Queensland toddler found dead after a desperate search on a rural property has remembered her daughter as “always smiling and laughing”.

Two-year-old Ruby Gulliver is being mourned by her family in Tara, in the Western Downs region, after she went missing about 3.30pm on Monday.

“Ruby my special little girl and buddy,” her father Trent Gulliver said in a statement to 7NEWS.

“You could not have asked for (a) better child.

“She was always full of energy, smiling and…