The Brisbane Mental Hospital, situated at Wacol, Queensland, was a State run facility. The hospital, originally named the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum, was first established in 1865 on a 120 acre horse stud farm owned by Dr Stephen Simpson. The Brisbane Mental Hospital was previously known as the Goodna Hospital for the Insane.
It is known that children who were wards of the state were placed at the Brisbane Mental Hospital in the 1960s.
