Dingo baby death: Australia expresses sympathy to parents In the Northern Territory, where disbelief about the Chamberlains" insistence that a dingo stole their nine-week-old baby ran strongest, the public seemed to welcome the verdict. Some of the animosity towards the Chamberlains in the territory was believed to stem from concerns that the claims about a murderous dingo would damage local tourism. "Let's move on," said a typical comment today on the Northern Territory News website. There has been enough heartbreak and misery already. An online columnist, Lucy Kippist, expressed sympathy for the Chamberlains and welcomed the end of their "long and drawn out" ordeal. "The worst of all these things however must have been the unprecedented scrutiny of the Australian public," she said on The Punch website. They deserve to hear that we are sorry for the way they were treated as the young parents they were in 1980, grief stricken and under enormous pressure to defend themselves against a wrongful charge. The ruling even drew a grovelling apology from a prominent Australian comedian, Wendy Harmer, who re-wrote The Association song "Everyone Knows It's Windy" to "Everyone Knows It's Lindy." "What was I thinking?" she said. Such was the firestorm of hatred, all rationality was lost... I acknowledge that the horror for your family has been unending. You have always conducted yourselves with the utmost dignity and composure. The very qualities that saw you damned, accused and convicted.