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Waratah Ward spoke Alawa from her Mother and Father. She was born on Began Station and later moved with her family to Daly Water. She wrote of her early life in Roper River Women : Waratah Ward. She was a director of the Mimi Aboriginal co-operative and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. She was studying health and welfare at the time of her death.