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Coober Pedy Regional Times •Mechanic on duty •Tyres ISSN 1833-1831 •Tyre repairs •Fuel •Parts •Opening hours 7.30am-5pm Phone: 86725036 Tel: 08 8672 5920 http://cooberpedyregionaltimes.wordpress.com Thursday 13 March 2014 “WE WANT TO COME HOME” SAYS DIALYSIS FAMILY Local resident Bobby Brown and his wife Lois had to move away from Coober Pedy nearly three years when Bobby was diagnosed with kidney disease. The only regular dialysis treatment for people from this area is located 550 kilometres away in Port Augusta, forcing Bobby and his family members into a transient lifestyle. Bobby Brown now aged 55 grew up in Coober Pedy and raised his family here. The Browns are disappointed that dialysis treatment has not been made permanently available in Coober Pedy, despite the increase in town casualty numbers. “We are appealing to an incoming government to please, let us come home,” said Bobby. “We want to come home! We have have four daughters and seven grandchildren. Coober Pedy is our home and we need some dignity in our lives. We travel over a thousand kilometres in between treatments to see home.” Liberal party leader Steven Marshall has pledged four permanent dialysis machines for Ernabella to help bring APY people home. “Coober Pedy should be on Mr. Marshall’s list too”, said Bobby. Mark Parnell SA Greens Leader said this week, "We have committed to restoring funding in regional and remote South Australia. This will provide the necessary funds to have dialysis machines available both on the APY lands and a permanent dialysis machine based in Coober Pedy.” “Coober Pedy residents should not be required to travel over 500km to have dialysis treatment, this has negative implications on the patient, their family and the entire Nearly three years after Bobby Brown and his wife Lois were forced to relocate to Port Augusta for community,” said Mr. Parnell. Bobby’s dialysis treatment, they are tired and homesick and want to have dialysis at home. The Browns have 4 daughters and 7 grandchildren and the Stuart Highway has become their home! “We are afraid of losing our homes now with the current Labor government wanting to bring a population here from elsewhere,” said Bobby. Alarming statistics based on ANZDATA Registry analysis, help from a friend who drove down and towed us to from 1999 to 2009, show that the number of people Coober Pedy. It was a long day in the heat and luckily the “For the same amount of money that the Labor Party receiving maintenance dialysis from Central Australia more friend had an airconditioner and extra water for us. We wants to pay for a homeless centre that is not needed or than tripled from 62 to 209. This figure could double in had run very low on supplies and the children were wanted here, Coober Pedy could create employment by the next 5 or 6 years. exhausted from the heat,” said Lois. having dialysis machines and by looking after the needs of the people that already live here,” he said. Bobby told us that many of those travelling for dialysis Emotionally and financially the Browns are struggling with are accompanied by their entire families. “This is the way every twist in the kidney disease merry-go-round that “Seven aboriginal people from Coober Pedy and also aboriginal families are. One sick person can affect the promises them more years of travelling and living out of Oodnadatta are receiving dialysis treatment in Port Augusta lives, jobs and routines of up to a dozen family members the boot of an old car. Recently Bobby was referred to now. The need exists that would keep a local machine who should all be at home or at work. I can’t see the Adelaide to have a fistula inserted into his left arm to aid running full time, and give people training and jobs,” he logic in a system where stable people who become sick, are forced to be transient.” the dialysis process. “I suddenly needed $30 up front for said. PATS travelling, and to pay for accommodation up front for me and my Carer to stay in Adelaide at the only place “There is one person in Coober Pedy who has a portable “One dialysis machine in our town would ease a lot of aboriginal suffering and keep 50 - 70 people from putting we could find available. There are some hard times and dialysis machine that they are now using at home after themselves out onto the Stuart Highway each week and being a traditional owner doesn’t help. Our AMYAC group being treated in Port Augusta for 10 years.” draining another town’s services. What happens when doesn’t have funds available for this purpose,” he said. the dialysis needs in Coober Pedy doubles?” he said. “Now I am sick. It’s not like alcohol caused my illness Bobby is a proud Antakirinja man and a member of the and I needed relocating. I personally have never touched Last weekend Bobby and Lois travelled to Coober Pedy Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara group. He worked at the alcohol in my life and most aboriginal people I know with and spoke to us at their daughter Louisa’s home. Bobby Aboriginal Health Division of the Coober Pedy Hospital kidney disease are generally suffering from diabetes.” was deeply troubled by the predicament but thankful to when Sister Vicki was there. Bobby also worked at be ‘home’ and surrounded by his children and Coober Pedy Area School as a Mentor and Youth Worker, “Since I began my treatment in Port Augusta, seven men grandchildren for two days. He said that he missed his a position that he enjoyed very much. that were on dialysis have died from kidney disease. My Friday dialysis appointment to be here and would have to Auntie died here in Coober Pedy without ever having be back in Port Augusta to be on the machine by Monday. treatment because she was afraid to leave home,” he said. Before Coober Pedy had town water, Bobby was employed as a truck driver, delivering water for domestic water During a trip home in early January last year Bobby and tanks.He spoke proudly of his work at Umoona “Surely if the politicians got this sickness they wouldn’t Lois’ car broke down 60km from Coober Pedy in extreme want to be shipped off to ‘Darwin’ just to wait around heat.On this occasion they had three of their grand- Community as an assistant carpenter and even more for appointments, and risk their homes being given to children in the car. Two of them were toddlers. “We tried proudly of the contribution that he made to the Umoona strangers.” to flag down help from passing motorists, but nobody Opal Mine and Museum when he was helping to build it. would stop, said Lois.” “I remember collecting the rocks from the Moon Plain Kidney disease is considered an epidemic and is 10 times for the building. Some of the jobs I did there were more common among among Indigenous people than “There was no mobile phone signal but somehow one of concreting, plastering and sealing the mine. This contract among non-Indigenous people. my text messages got through to our daughter. She got was done through the Umoona Council”, said Bobby. SERVING THE OPAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD SINCE 1982 7 DAYS WEATHER - Autumn - Coober Pedy - Editor - Margaret Mackay Coober Pedy Oodnadatta Tarcoola Andamooka an underground town, built PO Box 275 Coober Pedy SA 5723 on the back of opal mining Ph: (08) 8672 5920 Email: [email protected] 333 days sunshine Coober Pedy is Australia’s real ‘Down Next Newspapers Under’, famous for its fabulous opals and bizarre subterranean homes. For generations, miners Thursday 27 March 2014 have dug into the white and orange rock to extract Thursday 10 March 2014 the valuable, sparkling stone. The tunnels and Thursday 24 March 2014 chambers were converted into undergrounds homes in order to escape from the desert heat. Thursday 20 April 2014 Space booked by Wed (week prior) Coober Pedy ‘evolved’ as the result Material must be in Fri prior of a massive post war Opal Rush where hardy pioneers developed a make or break Advertising Rates precious gem industry in the desert terrain. See the extravagantly built Black & White UNDERGROUND SERBIAN CHURCH with it’s magnificent stained glass windows and carvings. Display $6.50 per cm/col Daylight saving South Australia Classified $8.00 per cm/col Visitors can stay overnight and experience Colour on Application 6 October 2013 to 6 April 2014 underground life as the locals know it! Inserts on Application 5 October 2014 to 5 April 2015 DISTRIBUTING 4,500 + to SA : ADELAIDE CENTRAL How to send articles . Also Cavan, Bute, Pt. Pirie, Dublin, Minlaton, Pt. Broughton, PT. AUGUSTA, Snowtown, Pt. Wakefield, to CPRT * Bute IGA 9 High St, Bute, SA * Snowtown IGA 36 Railway Tce, The Coober Pedy Regional Times became a FREE Newspaper in 2006, increasing its * Port Broughton IGA 27 Harvey St distribution to 4,500 hard copies + digital online download, promoting news, events * Dublin BP Lot 7 Port Wakefield Rd, and distributing advertising to our regional towns. The CPRT is a small business and * Port Wakefield BP Truckstop receives NO external funding. 22 Snowtown Rd Port Wakefield A feature of the newspaper’s long history is that it maintains its prominence in the Ceduna/Thevenard, Pt. Lincoln, Penong, Fowlers Bay, region as a “voice for the people”; a regular form of communicating opinions for those The magnificent and colourful Breakaways Coorabie, Nundroo, Yalata, Jacinth Ambrosia, Nullabor, in remote areas who may otherwise be overlooked or underestimated.
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