{"product_id":"the-wanted-and-the-unwanted-9780522882469","title":"The Wanted and the Unwanted","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wanted and the Unwanted\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780522882469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 11 Aug 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: Carlton, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.3(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eA.M. Stafford was a journalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Australian Financial Review\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Good Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGriffith Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e. She taught in the UTS Creative Writing school, where she completed a Doctor of Arts. Stafford is now a high school English teacher.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e'In\u003ci\u003e The Wanted and the Unwanted \u003c\/i\u003eAM Stafford exposes the unsettling historical truth of an apartheid Kimberley where the brutality of slavery, social Darwinism and eugenics became the foundation of pastoralism - and profound multi-generational white wealth and privilege. With her exhaustive archival research, wry eye and elegant writing, Stafford reveals shocking details of a shameful recent past in Wyndham - replete with all its ghosts and living memories of inhumanity to local Aboriginal people - that carries a profound national resonance for today's Australia.' - Paul Daley, author of \u003ci\u003eJesustown \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Leap\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Annabel (A M) Stafford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49113806307545,"sku":"9780522882469","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780522882469.jpg?v=1787147106","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-wanted-and-the-unwanted-9780522882469","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}