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Following the completion of her schooling there she attended Stott & Hoare's
Business College, Brisbane where she gained high passes in shorthand and typing skills. On completing her studies, she worked briefly in the public service (as a typist at the Department of Justice Library), and then for
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Australia, writing as she went, primarily for Associated Newspapers and she is recorded as having travelled to places such as the East Kimberley (a record of 'Mrs Hill' appears in an October 1930 diary entry of
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fellowship in 1959. However, while this provided her with a small pension, her final years were characterised by financial and health problems and, in 1970, she returned to
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in June 1932; their relationship became an ongoing one throughout the remainder of Bates' life. Together the produced a syndicated series of articles entitled '
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with family, including Hills mother, caring for him; this would continue for most of his young life and Hill had little choice but to do so as a single woman.
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