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The findings of a coronial inquest into the death of a nine-month-old girl whose father drowned her in a river after hearing voices in his head will be published on Thursday.
NSW Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame held a five-day inquest in December last year.
The inquest was told the infant was thrown into the water at Jack Evans Boat Harbour in Tweed Heads, on the NSW and Queensland border, on the evening of November 17, 2018.
Her body washed ashore two days later on the sand at Surfers Paradise, more than 30km north.
The circumstances surrounding the death of the child, known as baby Q, were examined during a five-day inquest at the NSW State Coroners Court in December last year
In the hours leading up to the nine-month-old's death, her father tried twice to give her away to passers-by in the park.
Before 7pm, the court was told he held the baby in his arms as he walked towards Jack Evans Harbour and threw her into the Tweed River.
One of the main questions for the inquest was whether the nine-month-old girl drowned or whether her father suffocated her before throwing her into the river.
The court was told the baby's father was an Indigenous man living with schizophrenia and alcohol-dependence disorder who
