The latest inquiry into the death of Azaria Chamberlain will be told of 12 major dingo attacks in the past 17 years, the family’s lawyer said.
Stuart Tipple, who is the lawyer representing Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, will argue new evidence supports the “dingo took my baby” argument at the coronial inquest in Darwin on Friday.
“The significant thing that has basically happened since the last inquest is that there have been at least 12 significant attacks, three deaths,” Mr Tipple said.
“When the coroner last time said he can’t be satisfied that a dingo could attack, well that finding is just no longer able to be substantiated.”
Azaria was nine weeks old when she disappeared from her parents’ tent while camping at Uluru in August, 1980.
The cause of her death is currently listed as unknown.
The first of three coronial inquests into the death found it was likely a dingo took Azaria, but indicated there was possible human intervention.
The second inquest resulted in the Chamberlains being committed to stand trial.
Mrs Chamberlain-Creighton, who has since been remarried, spent three years in jail for the murder of her daughter.
The charges against her were quashed in 1986 when a royal commission headed by Justice Trevor Morling found the conviction was “unsafe”.
The third coronial inquest delivered an open finding.
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