The Shameful Isles

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Comprised of meticulous research and contemporaneous accounts of patient-prisoners politicians stockmen nurses policemen and journalists <em>The Shameful Isles </em>reveals one of Western Australia's most tragic acts of state-sponsored oppression from which First Nations peoples are still recovering.</p>