The Wanted and the Unwanted

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Annabel Stafford

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English

Miegunyah Press
11 August 2026

History; Australasian & Pacific history; Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; First Nations; Regional government

When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern tip of Western Australia. Some say they belong to the forgotten inmates of an apartheid hospital, built here in 1936 on the foundations of Social Darwinism and eugenics, theories that would reach their horrifying climax in the Holocaust.

The Wanted and the Unwanted is the story of the Wyndham Native Hospital, born from a maelstrom of personal animosities, ambitions and beliefs and from the warring spirits of the early twentieth century. It is the tale of a hospital built three miles from a town that banned Aboriginal people, a place where men, women and children were imprisoned, left untreated and subjected to experimental treatments without their knowledge and against their will. And it is the story of those who resisted and survived to transform Three Mile into a place of hope and a site from which a new Wyndham would emerge.

By: Annabel Stafford
Imprint: Miegunyah Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9780522882469
ISBN 10: 0522882463
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 August 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

A.M. Stafford was a journalist for The Age and The Australian Financial Review and has written for The Good Weekend, Griffith Review, The Tablet, The Sydney Morning Herald and Meanjin. She taught in the UTS Creative Writing school, where she completed a Doctor of Arts. Stafford is now a high school English teacher.