Peat Island : dreaming and desecration / Adrian Mitchell.
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TextPublication details: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781743055588
- 1743055587
- 9781743055595
- 1743055595
- Peat Island Centre (N.S.W.)
- Islands -- Australia -- New South Wales
- People with disabilities -- Australia -- New South Wales
- Îles -- Australie -- Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
- Personnes handicapées -- Australie -- Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
- HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand
- Islands
- People with disabilities
- New South Wales
- 994.442 23
- DU180.H3
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Intro; About the author; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Timeline; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Still waters run deep: Deerubbin and the Darkinjung; Chapter 2 -- George Peat and the turning of the tide 1806-1876; Chapter 3 -- Troubled waters: Rabbit Island Hospital 1884-1924; Chapter 4 -- The flood that does not flow 1925-1945; Chapter 5 -- Flotsam and jetsam 1945-1965; Chapter 6 -- Tidelines 1966-1982; Chapter 7 -- Countercurrents: the Richmond Report and after, 1983-1988; Chapter 8 -- Shadows in the water 1988-2000; Chapter 9 -- Drift: the dispersal of Peat Island 2000-2010.
Chapter 10 -- River mist 2011-Notes; Wakefield Press.
For just over 100 years an institution for the mentally ill has stood on little Peat Island, in the lower Hawkesbury. It was decommissioned in 2010; quite empty now, it remains a locked facility just as it had always been. And eerie. The last residents were dispersed into the wider community.
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