In 1927, she published Christison of Lammermoor, a biography of her father which was comparatively unusual at the time for its acknowledgement of settler violence towards Aborigines.

[4] In 1930, after her husband had died, Bennett relocated to Perth, Western Australia to devote the rest of her life to Aboriginal welfare.

Whilst working as a teacher of Aboriginal children, she was also actively involved in activist groups, including the Women's Service Guild.

[5] During her testimony before the Commission, Bennett condemned the alleged widespread sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women, as well as the forced removal of their children by the authorities.

[6] In 1960, the year before her death, Bennett wrote to the Kalgoorlie Miner and asked its readers: Who made the Eastern Goldfields natives beggars?