Lindy Chamberlain: 30 years on, the media is still getting its facts wrong
Lindy Chamberlain, the woman who was jailed over the disappearance of her baby near Uluru, has used the 30th anniversary of the tragedy to issue an open letter calling for changes to the libel laws and accusing the media of continuing to get its facts wrong.
Azaria Chamberlain disappeared during the 1980 camping trip. Lindy Chamberlain was initially jailed for life, before an item of clothing was found near a dingo lair leading to her being released.
In her letter today, issued on her behalf by the Harry M Miller Group, Chamberlain said that the media was still getting its facts wrong, and failing to correct errors. She said:
“In the last couple of weeks I discover I apparently did twice the amount of time in prison that I actually did, in Berrimah Prison no less, despite it being quite obvious that I was in Darwin Prison and Berrimah was only the suburb. Berrima Gaol is in NSW. When the truth is dealt with this way, subtly leaving a word out here and changing one there, then it goes into the archives unchallenged because someone else thinks it is too small to matter and another mistake is let slide.”
My heart goes out to Lindy Chamberlain and her family. A child lost is never forgotten.
Yes, mine too.
And thank you Lindy, for the clearest explanation of the process of forgiveness I have ever read.
Absolutely – “And thank you Lindy, for the clearest explanation of the process of forgiveness I have ever read.” I couldn’t have read it at a better time to be honest..
I take it Lindy would like to say more on the quality forensic work of Joy Kuhl. The work that helped get the conviction over the line.
Ahh I too would like to say things about that.
Tom
i’m not a legal expert, but as far as i’ve been instructed, truth most definitely IS a defense against libel – the law was changed in 2005.
http://www.law.uts.edu.au/coms.....ation.html
any legal experts care to clarify…?
When this incident originally happened dingos were regarded as innocent little creatures that wouldn’t hurt a fly.. Since that time dingos have revealed their true colors. In two separate incidents a 9 year old boy and a British backpacker were killed by dingos on Stradbroke Island.
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