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The Shameful Isles
The true story of North-West Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid
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The Shameful Isles
The true story of North-West Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid
About this book
In 1907, the Western Australian government began a program of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal people to purpose built lock hospitals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off the coast of Carnarvon. There, they were trapped against their will and exposed to experimental drugs and procedures. Many never returned and are buried in unmarked graves in the sandhills of Bernier and Dorre. Comprised of meticulous research and contemporaneous accounts of patient-prisoners, politicians, stockmen, nurses, policemen and journalists, The Shameful Isles reveals one of Western Australia's most tragic acts of state-sponsored oppression from which First Nations peoples are still recovering.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Prologue When the World Was Soft
- Part OneThe Ravaging 1800—1900
- Chapter One The coming of the Ships
- Chapter Two The Plague Bringers
- Chapter Three Enter The Bloody Cycle
- Chapter Four To Find An Island
- Part Two The Reckoning 1901—1905
- Chapter Five Harry Prinsep and the Harmonics of Humanitarianism
- Chapter Six A Royal Commission
- Chapter Seven Opening the Gates of Exile
- Part Three The Banishing 1906–1915
- Chapter Eight The Experiment Begins
- Chapter Nine The Human Round-Up
- Chapter Ten Landfall
- Chapter Eleven Wild Seas, Hostile Shores
- Chapter Twelve Drudgery, Drugs and Death
- Chapter Thirteen Sickness and Cure
- Chapter Fourteen Mrs Bates Dares Not Count the Graves
- Chapter Fifteen Other Islands, Other Plagues
- Chapter Sixteen The Turning Tide
- Chapter Seventeen Red Scourge, White Fears
- Part Four The Fading 1914–1919
- Chapter Eighteen Maelstrom
- Chapter Nineteen Twilight
- Afterword
- Timeline
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Endnotes