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‘Shattered’ parents of Canadian backpacker found dead on K’gari island mourn adventurous daughter

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Coroner to examine if 19-year-old drowned off Australian tourist island or was killed by wild dingoes

“I’m 18, and you can’t stop me!” Piper James told her father before she set off backpacking on the other side of the Pacific Ocean – but the young Canadian woman’s trip to Australia ended in tragedy and trauma.

Early on Monday, the now-19-year-old was found dead on a beach on the world heritage-listed sand island and tourist destination of K’gari off the Queensland coast, surrounded by a pack of dingoes near the Maheno shipwreck.

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