Robin Miller (nurse)

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.

Memorial to The Sugar Bird Lady at Jandakot Airport , [ 5 ] Perth, Western Australia , unveiled in 1978. (Replica Mooney Super 21 )
Memorial to The Sugar Bird Lady.