Ezzard Flowers

Ezzard is a Goreng-Wirlomin man who has dedicated his life to supporting future generations of Aboriginal people as an Indigenous mental health specialist whose focus is on healing. 

Born in Gnowangerup mission hospital in 1958, he grew up in the Gnowangerup/Borden/Bremer Bay/Albany area and is now the vice-chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language Stories Project. Ezzard is John Curtin Medalist, recognized for his vision, leadership and community services in the repatriation of the Carrolup Artworks to Australia in May 2013 and is also a recipient of the Multicultural Community Service Award 2007, for his work in promoting reconciliation and encouraging participation and interest amongst the wider community to maintain and promote Indigenous culture.

It's all about engaging the disengaged youth and community leaders within the Central Great Southern to their cultural domain. The cultural domain is about the dreaming, the culture, the spirittuality and, of course, the central focus of that is men's and women's business. It's about a geographical existence, throughout the region, connected to dreaming stories, oral history and lived experience with community leaders and Elders within our region.

Ezzard Flowers.