Join Goreng-Wirlomin Elder of the Noongar Nation Ezzard Flowers, and other Noongar Elders of the Carrolup Elders Reference Group in this online event. Free book here.
Members of the Carrolup Elders Reference Group share stories about their family connections to the child artists of Carrolup, what it means to be a member of the Stolen Generations in Australia, and their work with community and government. Join Goreng-Wirlomin Elder of the Noongar Nation Ezzard Flowers, and other Noongar Elders of the Carrolup Elders Reference Group to learn about the impact of colonisation on Australia’s on First Nations people and their hopes for the future.
What challenges do Noongar People of Western Australia deal with?
What does reconciliation mean to them and how do they stay strong?
This event will be online via Zoom.
Tony Hansen
Tony Hansen is a proud Wardandi/Wilman man of the Noongar Nation of the Great Southern region of Western Australia. As a young child he was stolen from his parents in the 1970 and sent to the Marribank Mission, formally the Carrolup Native Settlement, where he spent the next 15 years. Tony is current Chair of the Carrolup Elders Reference Group which guides the physical and cultural care of the collection of Carrolup artworks held at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University. Tony works at the national, State and community level for the rights of the members of the Stolen Generations.
Ezzard Flowers
Ezzard is a proud Goreng-Wirlomin man of the Noongar Nation from the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. He was born in 1958 at the Gnowangerup mission hospital. Ezzard is the Senior Cultural Advisor of the Carrolup UK Project. He has won several awards in recognition of this work with the Aboriginal community including the 2007 Multi-cultural Community Service Award in 2007. In 2004, Ezzard was one of four people from WA to verify the artworks of the child artists of Carrolup that had been stored at the Picker Gallery, Colgate University for four decades. In 2013 he was a John Curtin Medalist for his role in their repatriation back to Western Australia.
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison is a senior Menang man of the Noongar Nation from the Great Southern coastal region. His parents and 21 siblings were all stolen and separated as children. Jim has advocated for the rights of Aboriginal people, especially the Stolen Generations, for over forty years. His work addresses Aboriginal mental health, suicide, rates of incarceration and the ongoing removal of children from their families. He was a founding member of Reconciliation WA, three times the Aboriginal Co-chair of the National Stolen Generations Alliance, is the Co-convenor of Bringing Them Home (WA) and the inaugural Chair of the WA Stolen Generations Alliance. He has recently become a member of the Carrolup Elders Reference Group.
Dorothy Bagshaw
Dorothy (Dot) Bagshaw is a proud Noongar Elder. She is a survivor of the Stolen Generations. She and her mother and three siblings were taken to the Carrolup Mission in 1946. Dorothy has worked with the Aboriginal community for 35 years. She has been a board member of the NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islander Day Observance Committee) for 35 years and the Derbal Yerrigan Health Service for 30 years. She is a life member of both organisations. Dorothy is still active in the community today.
Photograph Credit: Ezzard Flowers, Goreng Noongar Elder on Goreng Noongar Boodja (Country of the Goreng Noongar People).
Courtesy Belle Lally, John-Peter Mandungu, Emily Sweeney and Nic Wright – Noongar Dandjoo 2021