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Michael Chamberlain pictured in 2014. Photo: Jamila Toderas
He came to Australia in 1965, where he became a pastor in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and married Lindy in 1969.
Their daughter, Azaria, was snatched from the family tent at Uluru in August 1980 and the couple were ultimately charged, Lindy with murder and Michael for being an accessory after the fact.
The Chamberlains were convicted, pardoned, exonerated and compensated and Michael Chamberlain, who remarried, went on to a successful career as a writer and an academic.
He lived in Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, and in 2016 was appointed a conjoint professor at the University of Newcastle, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
"The case represents a gross injustice but also freedom of forensic science, which eventually saw Lindy and I exonerated in 1988," he said.
"It was one of the worst perversions of justice and forensic science in Australian history. We had gone as babes in the woods. A Catholic lawyer described us as lambs to the slaughter.
"We had lived by the credo that if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. It was dead wrong."
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