Final Years
In 1941 she went back to her tent life at Wynbring Siding, east of Ooldea, and she remained there on and off until her health forced her back to Adelaide in 1945.
In 1948 she tried, through the Australian Army, to contact her son Arnold, who by then was serving in France. Later, in 1949, she contacted the Army again, through the RSL, in an effort to communicate with him. Arnold was living in New Zealand but refused to have anything to do with his mother.
Daisy Bates died on 18 April 1951, aged 91. She is buried at Adelaide's North Road Cemetery. An episode in her life was the basis for Margaret Sutherland's chamber opera The Young Kabbarli (1964) and her involvement with the aboriginal people is the basis for the 1983 lithograph The Ghost of Kabbarli by Susan Dorothea White.
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