The Wanted and the Unwanted
$27.99
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522882469 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522882463 |
| Author: | Annabel Stafford |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 514g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 200mm x 280mm |
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Critics Review
‘In The Wanted and the Unwanted AM 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 Jesustown and The Leap
Annabel Stafford
A.M. Stafford is a journalist who has written for The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Good Weekend, Griffith Review, The Tablet, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Meanjin. She previously taught in the UTS Creative Writing school, where she also completed her Doctor of Arts. Stafford is now a high school English teacher.
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