Ebook: Peat Island: dreaming and desecration

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.;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.