Daisy Bates — Elizabeth Salter

Daisy Bates, a remarkable woman, spent much of her life caring for the Aborigines in the far outback of Western and South Australia. At first her interest in them was mainly ethnological. But after close contact with the Aborigines she decided to camp among them in order to look after the old, the young and the sick. In 1912 she became the first woman to be appointed a Protector of the Aborigines by the government of Western Australia.

This book encompasses her early years as Daisy O'Dwyer in Ireland, her first visit to Australia in 1884, her work as a journalist in London and her trip to the remote Beagle Bay mission in Western Australia where she took up her life's work. It also describes how Daisy Bates' passionate concern for the Aborigines, her adventurous life and her uncompromising opinions led to both fame and conflicts with government authorities.