Robin Elizabeth Miller (born 8 September 1940 – 7 December 1975), known as "The Sugarbird Lady", was an Australian aviator and nurse.
Her mother was the writer Dame Mary Durack,[2] and her father was an aviator, Captain Horrie Miller.
After obtaining a private pilot licence and a commercial flying licence while training as a nurse, she approached the Western Australian Department of Health to ask permission to fly to northern Western Australia to carry out a vaccination programme.
[4] Two quotes from ABC's "George Negus Tonight" described her flying prowess:[6] Nancy Bird (a friend): "One was a solo flight from Paris to Australia.
"Michael Page (publisher): "She was so used, for example, to doing things like flying in through a thunderstorm to an outback station where there was nothing you could really call a landing ground, and getting down there and then picking up someone who had perhaps been gored by a bullock, you know, with a great wound in the abdomen, getting them into the aircraft, and flying back to Perth or Broome or wherever it was where the nearest hospital was.