Purple Day is a worldwide grassroots campaign started in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan from Canada to get more people talking about epilepsy.
For the past 11 years, Epilepsy Tasmania through its affiliation with Epilepsy Australia has been a proud official partner of Purple Day, using it to educate Tasmanians about epilepsy and challenge myths that still exist.
Read more here in our Talking Point, published on the 25th March 2019 in The Mercury Newspaper, Tasmania.
Mercury Talking Point- 26 March 2019