Azaria's mother wants death certificate changed

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Azaria Chamberlain's death certificate will be examined to determine whether the cause of death is accurate.

Azaria's mother, New Zealand-born Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, has always maintained it was a dingo that took the 9-week-old from the family tent at an Uluru campsite on August 17, 1980.

While Azaria's body has never been found, Chamberlain-Creighton used the 30th anniversary of her daughter's disappearance to call for Azaria's death certificate to be changed to confirm a dingo or feral dog was responsible.

Northern Territory Attorney-General Delia Lawrie issued a statement saying she had written to the registrar of births, deaths and marriages to address the matter.

The cause of Azaria's death is currently listed as unknown. The first of three coronial inquests into the death found it was likely a dingo took Azaria, but indicated there was possible human intervention.

The second inquest resulted in the Chamberlains being committed to stand trial.

Chamberlain-Creighton spent three years in jail for the murder of her daughter.

The charges against her were quashed in 1986 when a royal commission headed by Justice Trevor Morling found that the conviction was "unsafe".

The third and final coronial inquest delivered an open finding.

Lawrie said she had also written to Chamberlain-Creighton to inform her about what was happening.

- AAP