The 3 Act Podcast ‘Voices from the Archive: Lust, Legislation, Lunacy’ was developed by Dr Elga Skrastins during her PhD research. The podcast is a recording of a multi voice play, scripted to disseminate an analysis of the precursors and consequences of state responses to the deemed social problem of female promiscuity. The playscript is a creative composite of verbatim data retrieved from archival, postcolonial legislative, welfare, medical and legal records from Tasmania, Australia. The podcast recording provides social and situational evidence documenting the ways that in the late 19th and early 20th century, the promiscuity of young working-class girls was classified as a mental disorder. Pregnant wards of the state judged to be moral imbeciles, were consigned to asylums.