Lindy Chamberlain
It is easy to understand why the parents of Azaria Chamberlain, Lindy and Michael, who have long since gone their separate ways, and who were long ago acquitted of involvement, wish the death certificate to be altered to reflect that a dingo took their daughter.
But is another inquiry needed?
In December, a Northern Territory coroner, Elizabeth Morris, said the family had provided her with “information” about dingo attacks on children. After appointing an investigator to review the material, Morris decided to reopen the inquest.
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Political correctness rules our lives and while I’m all for equal opportunity, why not extend it to some of the creatures that share our great country?
Why is it considered acceptable for one or two species to regularly claim human lives, while another is hunted down and killed in retribution? Or a whole colony culled, after what might be little more than a nip?
If you are unlucky enough to be eaten or bitten in the sea, you are intruding, you knowingly took the risk and the chances are very high that the protected predator responsible will be allowed to swim off in search of its next feed.
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Echosmum says:
They ARE the Australian wolf Canis Lupis Dingo (Lupis as in WOLF)- NOT a dog Canis Familiaris. They have been here 18,000 years Nick. When the apex predator is removed from the environment cascading extinctions of other natives follow as mesopredators fill the void- this is happening Australia wide, loss… Read more »
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Echosmum says:
The child was unattended in an area with dingoes,death adders,1000’s of 4x4’s, and of course the ocean. The mother and nanna were unaware that she was not with them TOTALLY UNAWARE The barge operator saw the child and was screaming from his cabin at the many people on the beach… Read more »
In a tearful face-off with the media last month, the heavily tattooed and visibly distraught Kristi Abrahams denied her involvement in the disappearance of her six-year-old daughter Keisha, last seen by her mother when she tucked her into bed on the night of 31 July.
“It’s disgusting what they’re saying,” she said. “They (the public) need to stop judging me. They don’t know me.”
The latest in a long line of women who have been questioned in regard to the death of their own child Abrahams was clearly feeling the weight of public opinion. What she didn’t seem to realise, was that while her points may have been fair, raising them won’t make an ounce of difference.
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Liz from Townsville says:
Well Britney…you were spot on, weren’t you? (that by the way, was sarcasm). Abrahams was judged not only for the way she acted, but the past history of child abuse and her child only having had attended 5 days of school out of an entire year. Its the entire picture… Read more »
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Mikaela Ackerman says:
If only every body questioned what they read or see. Wonderful work Brittany Read more »
For anyone born before about 1978 the Azaria Chamberlain case will never lose its fascination - I could read about it all day.
But the thing that so clearly stands out in today’s News Ltd report about the “Chamberlain files” is that the women jurors in the 1982 murder trial of Lindy Chamberlain were so much harder on her than the men.
According to The Daily Telegraph: “The three women - a teacher and two housewives - all voted for conviction while at least four of the nine men had to be persuaded that she was guilty.”
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convinced says:
@loz - I stayed in the same camping ground in 1975 on a school trip and we never saw or heard a dingo or any other canine in the vicinity. The only 4 legged creatures we encountered were a plague of hopping mice…..that invaded our tents and coach,, and were… Read more »
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JL says:
“I, for one, never believed Lindy guilty, for the simple reason that there was no way I would kill my child, therefore why would, or could, any other woman?” - seriously??? There are many, many, many cases all over the world where women have killed their own children. There are… Read more »
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