Lindy and Michael Chamberlain

We now know the science was dud and we know a lot more about dingoes – there have been a lot more attacks since then, at least one of them fatal.

Indeed, research by the University of Western Sydney suggests that dingoes in Australia are behaving like any wild animals disturbed by encroachment of human populations.

Dingoes prefer a diet of small native animals within a fairly well-defined and learnt territory. Dingoes teach their young the limits of their territory and the tricks of catching and killing native prey and the dangers of moving out of their territory. If you disrupt that pattern by killing or trapping adult dingoes or by leaving human waste food around you invite dingoes to go for stock or small humans as easy prey.

Lindy Chamberlain has consistently said a dingo took her baby. She always said Azaria was wearing a matinee jacket. The jacket was ultimately found near a dingoes' den during the search for the body of a tourist who fell from Ayer Rock. That led to an inquiry and the quashing of the convictions. But still the death certificate remains a falsehood.

No fair person could possibly conclude anything else now but that a dingo killed Azaria Chamberlain and that Lindy Creighton Chamberlain and Michael Chamberlain are entitled to have the death certificate reflect that.