The Shameful Isles: The true story of Northwest Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid

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David Price

The Shameful Isles

The true story of Northwest Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid

David Price

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English

Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
29 July 2025

History; Australasian & Pacific history; Colonialism & imperialism

The Shameful Isles is a unique resource on north-west Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid.

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.

By: David Price
Imprint: Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm,
Weight: 452g
ISBN: 9781760994174
ISBN 10: 1760994170
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Price is a Western Australian educator and writer who grew up in the small northwest town of Carnarvon. His first book, Dark Tales from the Long River, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020 and explored some lesser-known and sadder historical events of the Gascoyne and Murchison Regions.