PublishedScribe Publications, September 2012 |
ISBN9781922070036 |
FormatSoftcover, 384 pages |
Dimensions20.9cm × 13.4cm × 2.9cm |
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. Suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession, no motive - and, apparently, credible evidence of their innocence.
Yet the mother is convicted of murder; her husband, of concealing her crime. Two appeals fail, and Lindy spends more than three years in prison before being released pending a royal commission. More than three decades pass before there is a finding that little Azaria was actually taken by a dingo. Ken Crispin QC appeared for the Chamberlains at the royal commission. He provides an authoritative account of this saga, against a backdrop of Aboriginal spirituality and the Chamberlains' own religious beliefs.
