"her daughter missing, cries out, ""The dingo took my baby!"" Dingoes ate my baby ""A dingo ate my baby"" is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and also to Meryl Streep's depiction of Chamberlain in the movie ""Evil Angels"" (1988) (also known as ""A Cry in the Dark"") about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory. The Chamberlain family had been holidaying at Uluru when their daughter was taken from their tent by a dingo. The authorities disbelieved the family's story about a dingo, and prosecuted and won"
"from their tent, never to be seen again. Investigators observed prints on the floor of the tent and bloodstained clothing belonging to the child was later discovered amongst rocks near the base of Uluru. The coronial inquest in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in 1981 concluded that the baby had been taken by a dingo; however, this finding was overturned by another inquest in Darwin in 1982. Lindy Chamberlain was subsequently tried for murder and given a life sentence, while Michael was convicted of being an accessory after the fact and given an eighteen-month suspended sentence. During her imprisonment in Darwin,"
"Death of Azaria Chamberlain Azaria Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was an Australian 2-month-old baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 on a family camping trip to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory. Her body was never found. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. Lindy Chamberlain was, however, tried for murder and spent more than three years in prison. She was released when a piece of Azaria's clothing was found near a dingo"
"was reported that Lindy Chamberlain dressed her baby in a black dress. This provoked negative opinion, despite the trends of the early 1980s, during which black and navy cotton girls' dresses were in fashion, often trimmed with brightly coloured ribbon, or printed with brightly coloured sprigs of flowers. Since the Chamberlain case, proven cases of attacks on humans by dingoes have been discussed in the public domain, in particular dingo attacks on Fraser Island (off the Queensland coast), the last refuge in Australia for isolated pure-bred wild dingoes. In the wake of these attacks, it emerged that there had been"
"think I hear a dingo eating your baby"". It also was referenced in the ""Rugrats"" film ""The Rugrats Movie"" when, after the children go missing, a news reporter briefly asks Didi if it was true that a dingo ate her baby. In 2010, Australian rock band The Paradise Motel released the album ""Australian Ghost Story"", a concept album about the disappearance and death of Azaria Chamberlain. Death of Azaria Chamberlain Azaria Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was an Australian 2-month-old baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 on a"
"Azaria Chamberlain inquest. Coroner Elizabeth Morris said that the new evidence in relation to dingo attacks on infants and young children had helped convince her to reopen the investigation. After 32 years of intense media interest and public excoriation, the Chamberlains stated they remained unsatisfied with bare acquittal and presumed innocence, and were keen to finally, and definitively, determine how their daughter died. On 12 June 2012, an Australian coroner made a final ruling that a dingo dog took baby Azaria Chamberlain from a campsite in 1980 and caused her death. Coroner Elizabeth Morris apologised to the Chamberlain family while"
"Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Alice Lynne ""Lindy"" Chamberlain-Creighton (née Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru (then usually known as Ayers Rock) in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The prosecution case was circumstantial and depended on forensic evidence. Chamberlain was convicted on 29 October 1982, and her appeals to the Federal Court of Australia, and High Court of Australia, were dismissed. On 7 February 1986, after"
"the discovery of new evidence, Chamberlain was released from prison on remission. Both accused were officially pardoned in 1987, and their convictions were quashed by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in 1988. In 1992, the Australian government paid Chamberlain $1.3 million in compensation. In 2012, a fourth coronial inquest found that Azaria died ""as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo."" Alice Lynne Murchison was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, the daughter of Avis and Cliff Murchison. She was known as ""Lindy"" from a young age. She moved to Australia with her family in 1969."
"Frances Lydia Alice Knorr Frances Lydia Alice Knorr (10 December 1868 – 15 January 1894) was an English migrant to Australia, known as the Baby Farming Murderess. She was found guilty of strangling an infant and hanged on Monday 15 January 1894. Frances Knorr was born as Minnie Thwaites in London, England in 1868 and emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1887. Initially she worked as a domestic servant and married Randolph Knorr, a German immigrant. She later had an affair with one Edward Thompson and soon afterwards moved to Melbourne. The short lived affair was not successful and Minnie had"
"of justice"". It was in response to a petition presented by her supporters. “The petition appears to raise a doubt or question concerning the evidence as to the incidence of reported deaths of three or more infants in the same family attributed to unidentified natural causes in the proceedings leading to Ms Folbigg’s convictions,” he said. She will remain in custody during the course of the inquiry, which is estimated to take between six and twelve months. Kathleen Folbigg Kathleen Megan Folbigg (née Donovan) (born 14 June 1967) is an Australian serial child killer who was convicted of murdering her"
"The Dingo The Dingo is a 1923 Australian silent film directed by Kenneth Brampton. It is a melodrama about a drunken scoundrel who causes trouble. It is considered a lost film. ""The Dingo"" is a nickname for Harry Selby, a drunken thief from the city who loves animals and little children. He marries a country girl, Molly, despite knowing that she loves someone else, Dr John Stirling. Selby becomes passionately jealous of Stirling's attentions to Molly and is encouraged in this by Oily Allen. Harry breaks into Dr Stirling's house and discovers a photograph of his wife. He picks it"
"extinct thylacine. The name ""dingo"" comes from the Dharug language used by the Indigenous Australians of the Sydney area. The first British colonists to arrive in Australia in 1788 established a settlement at Port Jackson and noted ""dingoes"" living with indigenous Australians. The name was first recorded in 1789 by Watkin Tench in his ""Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay"": The variants include ""tin-go"" for a bitch, ""din-go"" for a dog, and ""wo-ri-gal"" for a big dog. The dingo has been given different names in the Indigenous Australian languages, including ""boolomo"", ""dwer-da"", ""joogoong"", ""kal"", ""kurpany"", ""maliki"", ""mirigung"", ""noggum"", ""papa-inura"","
"Kathleen Folbigg Kathleen Megan Folbigg (née Donovan) (born 14 June 1967) is an Australian serial child killer who was convicted of murdering her three infant children, Patrick Allen (at age eight months), Sarah Kathleen (at age ten months) and Laura Elizabeth (at age nineteen months). She was also convicted of the manslaughter of her fourth child, Caleb Gibson (at age nineteen days). The murders took place between 1989 and 1999, coming to an end only when her husband discovered her personal diary, which detailed the killings. Folbigg was originally sentenced to forty years' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of thirty"
"and an opera, ""Lindy"", by Moya Henderson. The initial coronial inquest into the disappearance was opened in Alice Springs on 15 December 1980 before magistrate Denis Barritt. On 20 February 1981, in the first live telecast of Australian court proceedings, Barritt ruled that the likely cause was a dingo attack. In addition to this finding, Barritt also concluded that, subsequent to the attack, ""the body of Azaria was taken from the possession of the dingo, and disposed of by an unknown method, by a person or persons, name unknown"". The Northern Territory Police and prosecutors were dissatisfied with this finding."
"photo play everyone knew Australia would produce sooner or later."" However the film appears to have only been given a small release and it is unlikely it was a commercial success. The Dingo The Dingo is a 1923 Australian silent film directed by Kenneth Brampton. It is a melodrama about a drunken scoundrel who causes trouble. It is considered a lost film. ""The Dingo"" is a nickname for Harry Selby, a drunken thief from the city who loves animals and little children. He marries a country girl, Molly, despite knowing that she loves someone else, Dr John Stirling. Selby becomes"
"her publicly where she had taken Azaria. She then later returned to the tent and immediately claimed that she saw a dingo taking her baby with evidence implicating a dingo being purely coincidental. No-one noticing alleged blood on Mrs Chamberlain's clothes in the hours after the disappearance was purely fortunate. Mrs Chamberlain opening the car where the body was allegedly hidden to give a dog the scent of Azaria from the clothes in the car was a daring act. She also must have somehow done it without her husband's knowledge or he was also incredibly daring given that he left"
"Linda Agostini Florence Linda Agostini (; 12 September 190527 August 1934), known posthumously as the ""Pyjama Girl"", was an English Australian homicide victim found on a stretch of road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934. Linda Agostini was born Florence Linda Platt in Forest Hill, a suburb of South East London, on 12 September 1905. As a teenager, Platt worked at a confectionery store in Surrey before travelling to New Zealand at the age of 19 after what was rumoured to be a broken romance. Platt remained in New Zealand until 1927 when she moved to Australia"
"did not examine the evidence to see whether it had been proved that a dingo took the baby. To do so would, in the words of Commissioner Morling, involve a ""fundamental error of reversing the onus of proof and requiring Mrs Chamberlain to prove her innocence"" (at p. 339 of the report). In acquitting the Chamberlains in 1988, the Supreme Court found that the alleged ""baby blood"" found in the Chamberlains' car, upon which the prosecution so heavily relied, could have been any substance, but was likely that of a sound deadening compound from a manufacturing overspray (which contained no"
"of death amended on Azaria's death record. In 2012, the coroner's final report identified that a dingo was the cause of death. In the 1983 Australian TV movie about the case, ""Who Killed Baby Azaria?"", Chamberlain was played by Elaine Hudson; the movie aired on Network Ten. In the 1988 film ""Evil Angels"" (released as ""A Cry in the Dark"" outside of Australia and New Zealand) the role was played by Meryl Streep, whose performance received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in 1989. Miranda Otto played Chamberlain in the 2004 Australian TV mini-series ""Through My Eyes: The Lindy"
"to the tent. Half way to the tent she thought she saw a dingo emerging from the tent having difficulty getting out of the tent and shaking its head vigorously. Her view of its nose was obscured. She cried ""Michael, Michael, the dingo's got my baby!"" and ran into the tent to check on her children. Azaria was missing. She chased in the direction she thought it had gone, and called out to her husband for a torch. Police Detective Sergeant John Lincoln gave evidence that he took photographs of large paw prints a few centimeters from Azaria's cot and"
"at least 400 documented dingo attacks on Fraser Island. Most were against children, but at least two were on adults. For example, in April 1998, a 13-month-old girl was attacked by a dingo and dragged for about one metre (3 ft) from a picnic blanket at the Waddy Point camping area. The child was dropped when her father intervened. In July 2004, Frank Cole, a Melbourne pensioner, claimed that he had shot a dingo in 1980 and found a baby in its mouth. After interviewing Cole on the matter, police decided not to reopen the case. He claimed to have"
"Daisy Bindi Daisy Bindi (1904 — 1962), also known as Mumaring, was an Australian Aboriginal indigenous rights activist and a leader in the landmark 1946 Pilbara strike in Western Australia. Bindi was born about 1904 on a cattle-station near Jigalong Aboriginal Reserve, on the edge of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia, to parents Jimmy and Milly. Her Aboriginal name was Mumaring. She acquired the name Bindi on her marriage to her husband, though no other records of their union have been found. As a child she worked on Ethel Creek station, where she learned housework and to manage horses,"
"after Miss Flannagan had taken her from Jane Freeman, the wet nurse that was feeding her-although Anna Flannagan had been introduced as ""Mrs Stevens"", Freeman knew her to be the latter. It was alleged that in a moment of maternal madness, Anna Flannagan had killed the child, although she was later lucid enough to be arrested on attempting to flee to Sydney, Australia. In February 1891, Christchurch, New Zealand residents Anna Flannagan (25), her mother Sarah Jane Flannagan (50) and Sarah Jane's husband, former Constable Daniel Flannagan, were all accused of killing Anna's illegitimate child, although they claimed to have"
"taken by a dingo"". The Chamberlains divorced in 1991 and both remarried other people. Lindy and her second husband lived for a time in the United States and New Zealand but have since returned to Australia. Michael Chamberlain died after a long battle with leukaemia on 9 January 2017, aged 72. The National Museum of Australia has in its collection more than 250 items related to the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, which Lindy Chamberlain has helped document. Items include courtroom sketches by artists Jo Darbyshire and Veronica O'Leary, camping equipment, a piece of the dashboard from the Chamberlain family's car,"
"Carmine Munro Carmine ""Maggie"" Munro (8 May 1931 – 29 December 2010) was an Australian Aboriginal elder who lived in Moree, New South Wales. Maggie Munro was a community leader and confidante and was well known as a supporter of human rights for Aboriginal people. She was born Carmine May Smith in 1931 in an Aboriginal camp in Moree, the second of three girls born to Raymond Smith, a boundary rider, and Mary Jane French. Her mother died when she was a toddler and her father remarried. The new union gave Maggie a further 12 more brothers and sisters. According"
"Australia, authorities in Alabama flagged an intention to charge him with murder at a later date. After his release, he was deported to Alabama on the condition that he would not be sentenced to death if found guilty of murder. Watson was then put on trial, but on 23 February 2012, Judge Tommy Nail dismissed the murder case due to lack of evidence. Christina Mae ""Tina"" Watson (birth name unknown) was born in West Germany on 13 February 1977, before relocating to the U.S. while still a baby. On 24 January 1980, she was legally adopted by Tommy and Cindy"
"kookaburra. The dingo was introduced by Austronesian people who traded with Indigenous Australians around 3000 BCE. Many plant and animal species became extinct soon after first human settlement, including the Australian megafauna; others have become extinct since European settlement, among them the thylacine. Australia is the second driest continent (after Antarctica), and frequent droughts have led to the introduction of water restrictions in all parts of Australia. This has led to concern about water security in Australia by environmentalists, irrigators and state and federal governments. Diversion and capture of natural water flows for irrigation in Australia has been responsible for"
"Daisy Kadibil Daisy Kadibil (""née"" Burungu; 1923 - 30 March 2018) was an Aboriginal Australian woman whose experiences shaped the book ""Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence"" and subsequent film ""Rabbit-Proof Fence"". She was a member of the Stolen Generations, which were Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families by the Australian government. Kadibil was born in 1923. Her mother was of the Martu people and her father Thomas Craig was of English descent, making her ""half-caste"" in the eyes of the Australian government. In 1931 when Kadibil was about 8 years old, she was removed from her family in the Jigalong"
"examine the evidence to see whether it has been proved that a dingo took Azaria would be to make the fundamental error of reversing the onus of proof and requiring Mrs Chamberlain to prove her innocence."" Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and Michael Chamberlain continued to push for a resolution to the investigation into the death of Azaria as being caused by one or more dingoes without human interference. A new inquest began in February 2012 and new figures on dingo attacks on Fraser Island were collated by the Queensland Government's Department of Environment and Resource Management and provided as evidence at the"
"Ranjini Ranjini is a Sri Lankan refugee to Australia since 2010, who has been held in indefinite detention with her children since 2012 due to a negative assessment by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), while at the same time a recognised refugee. Ranjini's story gained increased media attention since she was detained with her small children. Her case has raised questions about the ASIO's assessment process. It also highlighted the issue of mandatory detention in Australia, and in particular the issue of children living in detention. Ranjini's husband was killed in 2006 in the Vanni region of Sri Lanka."
"Australia to reside in Darwin. She has been a correspondent for ""Nation Review"", Reuters, ""The Guardian"", ""The Sunday Times"", ""The Age"", ""Sydney Morning Herald"", and the BBC. She has covered wars in Angola and Western Sahara, and is banned from entering Indonesia because of her criticisms of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and its aftermath. She was a Northern Territory finalist for the Senior Australian of the Year award in 2010. Jolliffe's 2001 book ""Cover-Up: the inside story of the Balibo Five"" tells the story of the capture and killing of the Balibo Five, subsequent evasion of the issue"
"from the Australian mainland 12,000 YBP, and New Guinea 6,500–8,500 YBP by the inundation of the Sahul Shelf. Fossil remains in Australia date to approximately 3,500 YBP and no dingo remains have been uncovered in Tasmania, therefore the dingo is estimated to have arrived in Australia at a time between 3,500-12,000 YBP. To reach Australia through the Malay Archipelago even at the lowest sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum, a journey of at least 50 km over open sea between ancient Sunda and Sahul was necessary, indicating that the dingo arrived by boat. Studies of the dingo maternal lineage"
"Lindy Chamberlain's book of the same name. The incident was transmuted from tragedy to morbid comedy material for American shows such as ""Seinfeld"", ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" and ""The Simpsons"", and ""became deeply embedded in American pop culture"" with phrases such as ""A dingo's got my baby!"" serving as ""a punchline you probably remember hearing before you knew exactly what a dingo was."" The incident was referenced in the ""Simpsons"" episode, ""Bart vs. Australia"", where Bart receives a phone call from Australia about a $900 phone bill that he had caused. Before hanging up the phone Bart says, ""Hey, I"