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Azaria Chamberlain’s half-sister Zahra training to be a dingo handler
Courier-Mail (Brisbane) ^ | 6th September 2014

Posted on 09/07/2014 4:06:32 PM PDT by naturalman1975

A DINGO took the sister she never knew but Zahra Chamberlain, 18, says she loves the native dogs and wants to protect them.

The half-sister of Azaria Chamberlain – the nine-week-old baby snatched from her tent at Uluru in 1980 – has become a passionate dingo advocate and is training to be a dingo handler.

The Year 12 student has been flying to Queensland from her home in Lake Macquarie, NSW, to support a dingo sanctuary.

Now she has spoken for the first time about her love of the species that father Michael and his first wife Lindy fought 32 years to prove was responsible for their baby’s death.

In an exclusive print interview with The Sunday Mail, Zahra said she wanted to use her profile to educate people about the maligned canine.

“We’re past all that terrible negative history,” she said.

“Given my family’s past, I still love dingoes as I do any other Australian wildlife.

“(My opinion of dingoes) has never really changed – I view them as a beautiful wild animal.”

(Excerpt) Read more at couriermail.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dingoes
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1 posted on 09/07/2014 4:06:32 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

People are weird alert.

The dingo being a wild animal did what it had to do. But being “past a negative history” is so very human unfortunately.


2 posted on 09/07/2014 4:09:33 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: naturalman1975

Maybe the dingo ate your baby?


3 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:01 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, I’ll be damned.

The Aussies have let too many deficient s in.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:22 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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To: naturalman1975

We could use one those-—at the very top of our government.


5 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:40 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Puppage
Maybe the dingo ate your baby?

The dingo ate her sister.

6 posted on 09/07/2014 4:15:42 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: naturalman1975

The world would have been so much better off if certain people had chosen different vocations. If Neville had become a dingo handler. If the Kennedys had gone into the movies. You see what I mean.


7 posted on 09/07/2014 4:16:29 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: naturalman1975

We could use one those-—at the very top of our government.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 4:16:31 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: naturalman1975

She’s 18 now and I would hit that.

Dingo lunatic though.

If her sister had been run over by a speeding car, would she install speed bumps on her street, in her memory?


9 posted on 09/07/2014 4:17:15 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Savage Beast

I do.


10 posted on 09/07/2014 4:19:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: naturalman1975

The dingo ate my other baby!


11 posted on 09/07/2014 4:31:17 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: naturalman1975

Cute girl.

Dingoes aren’t “native” to Oz, they are an invasive species that was introduced a long time ago. Just like humans.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 4:33:29 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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To: Defiant

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ghCTZF61ey0


13 posted on 09/07/2014 4:34:15 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Savage Beast

Yep. Clearly.


14 posted on 09/07/2014 4:36:22 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: x1stcav

It’s the same kind of flawed, cowardly thinking that lets Christians claim Islam is a religion of peace. Like a defense mechanism, maybe. Leftists love it when they turn the young children of their enemies to their (dark) side. Dingo sister loves dingoes. Billionaire’s daughter gives away all Dad’s money and turns socialist. Minister’s son is a homo and denounces the religion. But they sure hate it when they encounter ex-Muslims and ex-Homos.


15 posted on 09/07/2014 4:37:41 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: naturalman1975

Møøse bit my sister joke in 5...4...3...


16 posted on 09/07/2014 4:43:37 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Vaquero

I found out about this dingo case from that episode. After seeing it about 5 times on reruns, I finally got curious. Why is Elaine saying this line about a dingo? Luckily, Google existed by then. When I searched, I learned about the case of the Australian woman whose baby got taken by a dingo. Poor lady. Imagine how much worse it is to lose a child to a dingo when they prosecute you for the murder and refuse to believe you.


17 posted on 09/07/2014 4:45:59 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: Savage Beast

If obama had gone into sewer maintenance. If bill had pursued his saxophone.


18 posted on 09/07/2014 4:50:21 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Yes. We see it all so clearly.


19 posted on 09/07/2014 5:13:38 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Yeah, but she’s cute enough to get away with anything: http://www.lifestyle.com.au/animaltales/story.aspx?id=0ede3982-a3da-4c08-bdb5-6e9b854e67ac


20 posted on 09/07/2014 5:14:01 PM PDT by vladimir998
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