简介：DressedinstiffEdwardianattire,a60year-oldwomanpitchesasmallwhitetentinthescorchingsandhillsontheedgeoftheNullarbor.Shereignsinthedesert,asaselfappointedQueen,andadoptstheAboriginesashersubjects.Sheisknownas"kabbarli"(grandmother). DaisyBatesdiedin1951,anAustralianlegend.Shewasaground-breakinganthropologist,andexceptionallinguistandawomanwhodefiedconvention.Shewasalsoadevoutroyalist,aferventbelieverintheBritishEmpire,andanoutrageoussnob.Somelookeduponherasasaint;atirelessworkerforAboriginalwelfare.Otherssawherasamanipulativeandself-servingdo-gooder.Shewascantankerous.Shewascharming... Shewasalsoashamelessliar.MasqueradingasanimmigrantofaristocraticAnglo-Irishdescent,arespectableVictorianladyandajournalistforTheTimesnewspaper,sheconstantlyreinventedherself.Recently,ithasbeenrevealedthatshewasapoorchildotheIrishpotatofamineandabigamistwhomarriedthedrover,JackBates,whileshewasalsosecretlymarriedtotheinfamousBreakerMorant. "AllovertheWestAustralianfrontierIsawwholepopulationscompletelydevastated...Kabbarli,thenativeswouldsaytome-meenyajang-gabomungat-thesmellofwhitemaniskillingus."-DaisyBates,OoldeaNotebooks,1919.…