The submissions focus on attacks on children, particularly on Fraser Island in Queensland.

Michael Chamberlain will be present with his lawyer, Stuart Tipple, who represented him at the time of the second coroner's inquest 30 years ago. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, who lives in Western Australia, is expected to attend with her husband, Rick Creighton.

Azaria disappeared on August 17, 1980, from a tent at Ayers Rock. Then coroner Denis Barritt found 31 years ago that a dingo had taken the baby. But the finding was quashed in 1982 following scientific evidence that there had been foul play.

Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murder, and her husband Michael of being an accessory after the fact later that year. The couple were exonerated after a royal commission found in 1987 that much of the scientific evidence was seriously flawed.

There is not expected to be any examination of witnesses on February 24. Ms Morris, who is operating under revised guidelines for coroner's inquests in the Northern Territory, has studied the 1995 finding of the third coroner in the case, John Lowndes.

Mr Lowndes said that although there was ''considerable support for the view that a dingo may have taken Azaria, the evidence is not sufficiently clear, cogent or exact to reasonably support such a finding on the balance of probabilities''.

The coroner also was ''unable to be satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Azaria Chamberlain died at the hands of Alice Lynne Chamberlain'' or that Michael Chamberlain had any involvement.

The finding was unsatisfactory to the Chamberlains, who believed there had always been evidence to support the dingo attack scenario, and they vowed to keep fighting to have the final piece put into place that will clear their names forever. Ms Morris is expected to be relatively brief in reasons for her decision