Robin Miller (nurse)

Robin Elizabeth Miller was an Australian nurse and pilot, remembered as The Sugar Bird Lady, a name given to her by Aboriginal children in the outback. Born in Subiaco, Perth, on 8 September 1940, the daughter of the writer Mary Durack and the aviator Horrie Miller, she gained private and commercial flying licences while training as a nurse. In 1967 she obtained permission from the Western Australian Department of Health and flew a Cessna bought with borrowed money to remote northern communities, giving children the Sabin polio vaccine on sugar lumps. She later flew with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She died of cancer in South Perth on 7 December 1975, aged 35, and her husband set up a memorial foundation to help nurses gain flying licences.