Daisy Bates (author) a barren outback landscape. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. An episode in her life was the basis for Margaret Sutherland's chamber opera "The Young Kabbarli" (1964) and her involvement with the Aboriginal people is the basis for the 1983 lithograph "The Ghost of Kabbarli" by Susan Dorothea White. Works cited Daisy Bates (author) Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret Dwyer; 16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as "Kabbarli" (i.e. /kaparli/, a kin term
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