Hazel Brown is a senior Elder of the Wilomen Noongar people of the south coat of Western Australia. She has worked as a rural labourer, was a member of Western Australia's first Metropolitan Commission of Elders, and is a registered Native Title claimant over the south coast of Western Australia.
Hazel Brown's parents were children of the stolen generations. Her mother came from Marble Bar and was the sister of the two children who ran away from the mission in the book and the film titled The Rabbit-Proof Fence. Brown's father was a full blood Aboriginal and his grandfather was the famous Bobby Roberts who took John Eyre, the explorer, all over Australia. Bobby Roberts was made the first Aboriginal constable in Western Australia.
Brown, like many other Aboriginal children had little formal schooling because when they attend the white parents would protest and the teachers would call them heathens. As a teenager she worked for two bob a week for six months and at the age of eighteen Brown met Harry and they lived togehter before they got married and settled in a town called Borden.
Aunty Hazel Brown is Kim Scott's father's cousin.
