Bates, Daisy

1863 - Daisy May Bates was born 16th of October in Tipperary, Ireland.

1884-1885 - Arrived in Australia and worked as a governess in Berry, New South Wales.

1894-1899 - Worked on the Review of Reviews in London and gaining expertise in journalism.

1899-1900 - She was at the Trappist mission, Beagle Bay, north of Broome.

1904 - Appointed by the Western Australian government to research the tribes of the State.

1910 - Member of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to study the social anthropology of Aboriginal people of north-west Australia.  

1912-1934 - Bates camped at several locations in South Australia and Western Australia; Eucla, 1912-1914; near Yalata, 1915-1918; and near Ooldea, 1918-1934.

1934 - Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work.

         - Member of the British Royal Anthropological Institute and the Australasian Anthropological Institute.

1935-1940 - Wrote her autobiography 'My natives and I' in a tent at Pyap, South Australia.

1938 - Serialized in The Adelaide Advertiser and later edited and published as The Passing of the Aborigines.

1941 - Lived in Wynbring, east of Ooldea, South Australia.

1951 - Daisy Bates died 18th of April in Prospect, South Australia, Australia.

• "No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies."
• "What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion."
• "From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it."