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Table 8.2 sets out some of the questions and answers in columns 1 and 2. Some of Mr Sapir’s
comments are shown in shaded cells in column 3. Our comments are also made in column
3, but in clear cells. Comments which are derived from external evidence or are not based
only on the wording within the transcript are in italics. Column 4 contains a list of the labels
(nouns and pronouns) used in column 2 and important verbs. These words were highlighted
and used under Word’s ‘Find’ command to find repetitions.

Mrs Chamberlain’s story falls naturally into nine segments:

Table 8.2 Arbitrary divisions in the dingo case story

Segment Detail

Introduction Background
Clarification and Emotions

Scene 1 Leaving their home in Mount Isa and Travelling

Scene 2 Arrival at the camp in Ayres Rock
Scene 3 Morning of 17th August 1980
Scene 4 At Ayres Rock

Scene 5 Back at the amp and out again

Scene 6 To and from Sunset Strip

Scene 7 Back at the camp

Scene 8 The Critical Issues: Azaria disappears
Scene 9 The Search and Epilogue

The transcript of the interviews follows7:

Table 8.3 Extracts from Mrs Chamberlain’s statement

No. Topic Question or response Comment Labels and
actions
12 3 4
Q 5
Can you tell me the date you and Permission phrase by the
1 your family departed Mount Isa to interviewer … a bad approach.
travel to Ayres Rock? She could have simply answered
‘Yes’
Have you got a Calendar? (Refers
to Calendar). Yes the 13th day of Question with a question. The
August. date that she lost her daughter is
something she is unlikely ever to
forget

7 Highlighting in column 3 is a guide to the comments in column 4 and labels in column 5. The division into frames 1
to 161 is for analysis purposes only. Backtrack and a vertical arrow in column 1 shows out of sequence (ie non-memory)
statements