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July 09, 2004
AS a flight from Sydney to Uluru descended over the Red Centre yesterday, a couple of tourists eagerly asked the woman with the top knot sitting across the aisle if she knew what the weather was like at this time of year.

"It gets cold at night time," she answered, as Uluru loomed large in the distance.

And she should know.

The woman dispensing advice was Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, who yesterday returned to the place where her baby daughter Azaria went missing almost 24 years ago.

The 56-year-old returned to Uluru to film part of a television mini-series based on the story of Azaria's disappearance at Uluru on August 17, 1980, when Chamberlain-Creighton, then Chamberlain, famously claimed a dingo had taken her baby while her family camped at the rock.

The seven-day shoot comes at a time when the mystery has resurfaced with new claims by Melbourne pensioner Frank Cole that he shot a dingo with a dead baby in its jaws at Uluru at the same time Azaria disappeared.

Chamberlain-Creighton was jailed for her daughter's murder in 1982 but freed four years later and officially pardoned in 1987.

The $8 million telemovie Through My Eyes, which will be screened on the Seven Network later this year, stars Miranda Otto as Lindy and Craig McLachlan as her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain.

Chamberlain-Creighton, a consultant on the telemovie, said yesterday she was "impressed with the attention to detail".

Otto and McLachlan are among the cast filming crucial scenes at Uluru this week and were on location yesterday when Chamberlain-Creighton filmed her part.

It is believed Chamberlain-Creighton will appear in a poignant opening sequence where she looks at Uluru then gazes off into the distance, leaving the film to tell the story.

Producer Tony Cavanaugh said filming at Uluru this week - the first time a film or TV drama has been permitted to shoot at the sacred Aboriginal site since it was handed back to the local indigenous community in 1985 - had been surreal.

"It's weird being here this week, especially with a story ... that is blitzing the media again."