<p>Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret Dwyer; 16 October 1859 &ndash; 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' (a kin term found in a number of Australian languages which means 'grandmother' or 'granddaughter').</p><p>Daisy Bates conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. She supported herself largely by writing articles for urban newspapers on such topics as &#39;native cannibalism&#39; and the &#39;doomed&#39; fate of Indigenous peoples. Bates also published her work on Indigenous kinship systems, marriage laws, language and religion in books and articles. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work in 1934.</p>