Did the dingo eat the baby?

If you've been alive since 1980, chances are you've probably heard this once or twice: “The dingo ate my baby,” is what people trying to do an Australian accent will usually say after a half-decent “g'day, mate! read more

Evidence was also presented to the effect that a dingo was strong enough to carry a kangaroo and a report of the removal of a three-year-old girl by a dingo from the back seat of a tourist's motor vehicle at the camping area just weeks before, an event witnessed by the parents. read more

On August 16, 1980, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain arrived in Uluru, Australia, with their young family of two boys and baby girl Azaria. The area was known to be inhabited by dingos, wild dogs with a reputation for violence. read more

"A dingo ate my baby" is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and also to Meryl Streep's depiction of Chamberlain in the movie A Cry in the Dark (1988) – also known as Evil Angels – about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory. read more