 During 1908 the first island lock hospital for Australian Aboriginal people was established in Western Australia on the islands of Dorre and Bernier.In Queensland, Aboriginal STI patients were initially sent to Aboriginal reserves, including Barambah, and White Cliffs on Fraser Island, but planning for the establishment of an island-based lock hospital in Queensland for Aboriginal people commenced in 1914.The Chief Protector of Aboriginals' Office proposed constructing such a facility due to the belief that isolation was the best method of managing STIs in Aboriginal people.