An Award-Winning Healthcare for Australia’s the Western Desert Communities

The Purple House story started with the paintings of Papunya Tula artists from the areas of Walungurru and Kiwirrikurra. These paintings were auctioned more than twenty years ago in 2000 and raised more than one million dollars for kick-starting a new model of care based on compassion, country, and family.

Ever since the Purple House has been playing a role in helping families and making them well. The healthcare agency is an entirel....