In Perth she also spoke at meetings of the Western Australian branch of the Union of Australian Women, a group which supported the cause of Aboriginal rights. In 1960 the Cooperative split into some who wished to continue with McLeod, and others who thought that his position against mining interests were counterproductive to the Aboriginal cause, which included Bindi. Bindi died on 23 December 1962 of uraemia, a type of kidney disease, at the Native Hospital in Port Hedland, Western Australia. She was buried in the local cemetery. The poet Kath Walker, later known as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, made Bindi the eponymous heroine of a poem in the book "My people: a Kath Walker collection". The 2004 Black Swan Theatre Company production of the play "Yandy", written by Jolly Read and directed by Rachael Maza, tells the story of the Indigenous workers in the Pilbara strike, including Bindi, and their fight for wages, freedom of speech and freedom of movement across their country.