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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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MISSING girl Kiesha Abrahams’ mother believes her daughter was kidnapped by a couple who couldn’t have children.

Two months after the six-year-old was apparently snatched in the night from her Mt Druitt home in Western Sydney, Kristi Abrahams said she can “feel it in my heart” that someone else is mothering her girl right now.

And Ms Abrahams’ message to her daughter’s abductors is clear: “Bring her back to me now.”

Kiesha was reported missing on August 1, when Ms Abrahams found her bed empty.

Police are treating her disappearance as murder, despite her mother insisting she is alive.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/my-kiesha-was-taken-by-a-childless-couple-says-mum-kristi-abrahams/story-e6frfkvr-1225931281194#ixzz11G0rczPU

POLICE are investigating a series of payments made into the bank account of missing girl Kiesha Abrahams’ mother and stepfather in the weeks before she disappeared.

Sources have told The Daily Telegraph up to six payments, ranging between about $500 and $600 each, were made into Kristi Abrahams’ and Robert Smith’s bank account – but they are yet to be explained or accounted for.

It is understood the amounts were paid in cash into the account at regular intervals leading up to when Kiesha, 6, was reported missing from Mt Druitt her home in Sydney’s West on August 1.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/police-investigate-cash-payments-for-kieshas-mum/story-e6frfkvr-1225909120801#ixzz0xTEBkNzv

A TRAGIC picture of little Kiesha Abrahams’ life was emerging yesterday as homicide police joined the search for the missing six-year-old.

Police sources revealed that, as a toddler, Kiesha was admitted to a western Sydney hospital with a bite wound inflicted by an adult.

The injury suffered by the pretty blue-eyed girl was yesterday described by a source as a “significant bite wound”.

It has also emerged that Kiesha was known to numerous government departments, such as education and health.

But most of the harrowing details of her life cannot be reported for legal reasons.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/missing-kiesha-knew-lifes-harsh-cruelty/story-e6frfkvr-1225900839751#ixzz0vaQOCpZS

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