Azaria’s dad close to tears

“They’re here because they lost their daughter.”

Mr Tipple said the family wanted to set the record straight and have Azaria’s cause of death changed from “unknown” to reflect she was taken by a dingo.

“The open finding is not satisfactory to them and it’s not satisfactory to any parent who has lost their child,” he said.

He read a letter written by Ms Chamberlain-Creighton to the court expressing her disappointment in the open finding which left the coronial “unfinished”.

She said dingoes were “beautiful creatures” but were not shy of humans, which made them dangerous. “They are sly, cunning and strong,” she said.

Outside Darwin Magistrates Court, Ms Chamberlain-Creighton said she hoped that justice would prevail for her daughter when Ms Morris hands down her findings.

RECENT FATAL DINGO ATTACKS ON CHILDREN

THREE children have been killed by dingoes since the death of Azaria Chamberlain more than 30 years ago, a coronial inquest heard on Friday.

A report was tabled to coroner Elizabeth Morris that detailed 14 major dingo attacks since the nine-week-old baby girl disappeared at Uluru in 1980.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Rex Wild QC, said 22-month-old Kara Compton died after being attacked by her family’s pet dingo in Victoria in February 2006.

He said Natalie O’Brien, 2, was mauled by the animal near Eden, in NSW, in December 2005.

Mr Wild said there had been many children attacked by dingoes on Fraser Island, in Queensland, over the past two decades.

“They involve children in close proximity to family members being attacked by dingoes,” he said.

But he said Clinton Gage, 9, was first to be killed by the wild dog on the island in April 2004.

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