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Over the weekend, at #DesertMob in Mparntwe I had the privilege to hang out with Sarah Brown, from Purple House, an Aboriginal owned remote area dialysis provider. They operate 18 dialysis units in remote communities and 2 "purple trucks" purplehouse.org.au
Here's the thing. The federal and state governments had no interest in providing dialysis to Aboriginal people on community. Aboriginal elders in the Western Desert had to leave community, move to places like Perth or Alice Springs. The government said it would fail.
So, in 2000 a bunch of artists from Papunya Tula artists, who lived in Papunya, Kintore and Kiwikurra, ran an art auction to raise money. They raised an unprecedented $1M in one night and used that money to establish Purple House and build dialysis units.
