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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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A FOOTBALLER who had regular sex with the girlfriend he loved, Keli Lane, had no idea she had given birth to two babies during their relationship, a jury has been told.

Duncan Gillies also said that more than a year after he had broken off the relationship, he and his future wife had confronted Lane after being told she had named him as the father of a third baby in 1999.

“There was a time during that meeting where Keli was certainly different from the Keli I knew,” he told the New South Wales Supreme Court jury.

“Keli was going through several stages of denial and acceptance. It might sound crazy but at one stage, her eyes rolled over in the back of her head.”

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