Azaria Chamberlain disappearance

On the 1st of October, 1980, Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from her campsite at Ayers Rock. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, claimed that a dingo had taken her. In the months and years that ensued, the Chamberlains faced innuendo fuelled by the media, undeserved public shame and an unfair verdict handed down by a jury who had been confused and persuaded by the police, forensic experts and media outlets. Reliance on circumstantial evidence, conflicting interpretations of forensic evidence

Chamberlain Case (1984). On 29 October 1982, in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, by cutting her throat in the front seat of the family car at a camping area beside Uluru (Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Her husband, Michael, was convicted as an accessory. Appeals to the Federal Court and the High Court were unsuccessful. The convictions were quashed in 1988 after a judicial inquiry. Few cases have generated as

Highlighting Many of the Weaknesses in the Australian Legal System through the Chamberlain Case The case of Lindy Chamberlain was very significant in Australian legal history as it involved the conviction and imprisonment of an innocent person for infanticide. This is occurrence should never have taken place and demonstrated the weaknesses in the Australian legal system. A legal system is meant to be sturdy and never failing system that the public can put its trust ad

The infamous Chamberlin case tells us the attitudes towards crime during the 1980s because this case was based on the attitudes of society which led to the false imprisonment of a mother who had lost her child. This case reveals societies attitudes through the opinions of the vast majority on the rareness of the crime, their understanding of culture and ability to consider facts rather than be influenced by the media. This case shocked the nation due to its rarity, in the eyes of the public the

STAGE 1: ANALYSIS Fred Schepis 's A Cry in the Dark 1988 is a movie based on the courtroom drama with taglines around A family torn apart, a crowd full of rage and a woman accused of murder. It is a movie that runs for 120 minutes (feature length film). The movie DVD comes with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that helps in the conservation of the original acting aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The soundtracks are in English and French and are in the form of Dolby Digital Surround technology. It also has

Lindy Chamberlain Case (Dingo has got my baby case) The Accused Alice Lynne Murchinson known as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was born on 4 March 1948 in Whakatane located on the North Island of New Zealand. When she was just over one and a half years old her family moved to Victoria, Australia. She married Michael Leigh Chamberlain and they had 4 kids Aidan, Azaria, Reagan and Kahlia (after incident). Michael and Lindy were regularly involved with the church and were a very Christian influenced family

Why ‘The Simpsons’ Episode Bart versus Australia is Offensive To Australians Everywhere The Simpsons has a pull on everyone. I’ve watched the show since I was older enough to understand what half the jokes mean. Every episode has a habit of sucking you in and not letting go until the episode has ended. Well, one episode in particular rattles my bones in an angry sort of way. In 1995, an episode called Bart versus Australia aired. At the time, this writer didn’t know how intimidating the episode

numbers of their prey and regulating numbers of subordinate mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats, thereby indirectly helping to protect various other animals (Allen, Engeman and Krupa, 1996). Letnic and Koch (2010) extrapolate that the disappearance of dingoes is likely to result in an increase in population numbers of kangaroos, rabbits and turkeys which are all known to be pests in Australia. Furthermore, there is a strong, positive relationship between the survival of threatened marsupials