On the night of August 17, 1980, several people heard nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain cry out. Azaria’s blood was later found on her mattress, and dingo tracks were seen in and around the tent where she had been sleeping alongside her brother Reagan. No one who knew the Chamberlains – Michael, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, his wife Lindy and their three children – ever doubted that they were good people and that, as Lindy always insisted, a dingo had taken their baby. However, the truth of the case was swiftly obscured by rumour, vested interests, misogyny and prejudice. “Everyone in Australia judged this woman before she ever got a trial,” said Ita Buttrose, who interviewed Lindy for The Weekly.
A series of court cases and inquests followed, and in 1982 Lindy…
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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021