The community laundry working to reduce heart disease in the Northern Territory

Aboriginal Investment Group CEO Liz Morgan Brett (in white), with employees of the Remote Laundry Project at Gunbalanya. The project has built seven free laundry sites across the Northern Territory. Photograph: Aboriginal Investment Group

When former Olympian Liz Morgan-Brett toured remote Aboriginal communities in 2018, she saw first-hand the impact of unsafe living conditions.

“[There were] scabies infections, crusted scabies, and those secondary complications that stem from repeated scabies infections, which is acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease,” she says.