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More than three decades after Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from Central Australia, a new inquest has been announced to finally try to discover what happened.

The baby girl’s father, Michael Chamberlain, says the news is a milestone and he’s pleasantly surprised.

“I’m sure this time it will be the ultimate verdict which we’ve been looking for,” Dr Chamberlain told ABC Radio on Sunday.

The inquest will look at new evidence suggesting a dingo attacked Azaria.

The Northern Territory government has confirmed Coroner Elizabeth Morris will conduct the inquest, which will start on February 24 and represents the final legal chapter in the case.

Azaria was nine weeks-old when she disappeared from her parents’ tent at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in August 1980, sparking court cases that saw her mother Lindy Chamberlain sentenced to life in jail in 1982.

Mr Chamberlain was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of being an accessory after the fact.

The couple were both exonerated by a royal commission in 1987 and subsequently had their convictions quashed, although an inquest in 1995 delivered an open finding.

Mrs Chamberlain, now Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton after remarrying, has always maintained that she saw a dingo leaving her tent on the night Azaria went missing.

The claims were greeted sceptically by many Australians at the time of the disappearance and the saga was captured in the movie Evil Angels.

In a short statement on Sunday the NT Coroner’s office said it was reopening the inquest into Azaria’s death after information provided by the girl’s parents in relation to dingo attacks on infants and young children.

“This information was then further investigated by a coronial investigator,” the statement said.

“It is as a result of this investigation that the coroner has made the decision to reopen the inquest,” it said.

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POLICE are confident they know who is responsible for the disappearance of Kiesha Abrahams and it is only a matter of time before the suspect is arrested.

Five weeks since the six-year-old was reported missing from her home in Mt Druitt, NSW, an exhaustive investigation appears to be close to a result.

Police sources yesterday said they were closing in on the person suspected of murdering the schoolgirl. It is understood police have had to take their time in order to gather supportive evidence.

But a spokesman for Strike Force Jarocin, set up to investigate Kiesha’s disappearance, would not comment yesterday on an imminent arrest.

The news of an impending arrest came as the child’s mother, Kristi Abrahams, and stepfather, Robert Smith, made an application to Housing NSW to be relocated from the priority accommodation they were given days after their child was reported missing on August 1.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/we-know-who-murdered-kiesha-abrahams-say-police/story-e6frfkvr-1225914052857#ixzz0yeNUZha5

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TWO T-bone steaks, a can of Whiskas and an audio recording of a cat purr – if they’re out there, we’ll find them.

With sightings exploding in the past decade, we’ve decided it’s time to track down once and for all the elusive Blue Mountains panther.

The cats are photo shy. But despite the lack of any physical evidence, Hawkesbury locals have fingered the panther in hundreds of livestock deaths.

As one believer put it: “The cats are out there – and they’re breeding.”

Farmers, wildlife rangers and conspiracy theorists take photos of scratchings on trees and collect scat samples, hairs and “panther paws” moulds.

There have been more than 460 sightings in the Hawkesbury since 2001, making it the big cat capital of Australia

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/mystery-of-elusive-blue-mountains-cat/story-e6freuzi-1225902290900

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