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Daisy Bates

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Born: October 15 1859

Died: 1717 04 19511951

This author profile is for Daisy^^Bates, who lived in the Australian desert. Not to be confused with Daisy^Bates, who was a civil rights activist.

Daisy May Bates, CBE was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. Some Aboriginal people referred to Bates by the courtesy name Kabbarli "grandmother."

Bates wrote with compassion about the Aboriginal people of Australia in an era when they were not considered citizens, and were victims of deeply entrenched discrimination. At the same time, her legacy is complicated by her patronising views of the First Peoples, progressive for the time but ultimately considered outdated within only a few years of her death in 1951.