Kabbarli

Kabbarli Feature Image

1 x 60 min
| SBSI TV

Director:
Andrew Taylor
Producer:
Jo-Anne McGowan
Starring:
Lynne Murphy, Mary Regan

Dressed in stiff Edwardian attire, a 60-year-old woman pitches a small white tent in the scorching sandhills on the edge of the Nullarbor. She reigns in the desert, as a self-appointed Queen, and adopts the Aborigines as her subjects. She is known as “kabbarli” (grandmother). Cantankerous, charming and a shameless liar Daisy Bates masquerades as an immigrant of aristocratic Anglo-Irish descent, a respectable Victorian lady and a journalist for The Times newspaper. Recently, it has been revealed that she was a poor child of the Irish potato famine and a bigamist who married the drover, Jack Bates, while she was also secretly married to the infamous Breaker Morant.

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