The Great White Queen of the Never-Never (fwd link)

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The Great White Queen of the Never-Never

The Edwardian anthropologist Daisy Bates thought the Aboriginal people of
Australia were a dying race. Her views were less than enlightened, but by a
strange twist of history, her research is now being used as evidence on their
behalf

By Kathy Marks
Monday, 3 March 2008

She was known as the "White Queen of the Never-Never", the Australian Outback.
Yet Daisy Bates, the Irish-born amateur anthropologist who spent decades living
among Aboriginal tribes, was convinced that the people she studied were headed
for extinction.

Full article link below:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/the-great-white-queen-of-the-nevernever-790488.html