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Sam Watson (born 1952) is an Australian Aboriginal activist and a socialist politician. He has run as the candidate of the Socialist Alliance in the 2004 election in Queensland. Watson teaches a course in Black Australian Literature at the University of Queensland. He is also a writer and a filmmaker. He has received honours for his 1990 novel "The Kadaitcha Sung" and acclaim for his 1995 film "Black Man Down".
Through work at the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service in the early nineties, Watson was involved in implementing the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The film "Black Man Down" is a fictionalized exploration of the commission's findings.
He is currently the lead senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Queensland at the 2007 federal election. The campaign is built on Sam Watson's New Vision for Australia statement.
Works
Fiction
* "The Kadaitcha Sung" (Penguin Books, assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1990)
Film
* "Black Man Down", (Australia, April 1996) Directed by Bill McCrow [cite news |title= IMDb |url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482080/ |date=April 1, 1996] ]External links
*cite news | title = Sam Watson: a life-long fighter against racism | publisher = Interview by Karen Fletcher, Green Left Weekly | date = September 19, 2001 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/465/25170 | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Socialist Alliance Candidates | publisher = Socialist Alliance | date = 2004 | url = http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=302 | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Justice for Mulriji , no more cover-ups | publisher = Cop Watch - Brisbane Socialist Alliance | date = December 16, 2006 | url = http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134045.php | accessdate =
*cite news | title = No to Beattie's aparthied | publisher = Article by Dave Riley on Melbourne Indymedia | date = December 19, 2006 | url = http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134269_comment.php | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sign up for Sam Watson | publisher = Green Left Weekly Iss.681 | date = November 17, 1993 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/681/7898 | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sam Watson | publisher = Brisbane Writer's Festival: The Writers are in Town| date = 2005 | url = http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2004/content/standard_c1.asp?name=WatsonS | accessdate =
*cite news | title = An Interview with Sam Watson | publisher = Salamanca Writers’ Festival, Hobart| date = June 1995 | url = http://walleahpress.com.au/int-watson.html | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sam Watson Interview by Kirrin McKechnie | publisher = ABC, Stateline | date = March, 4 2005 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/qld/content/2005/s1316159.htm | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sam Watson's New Vision for Australia| url = http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=670 | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sam Watson's election profile | url = http://socialistalliance-brisbane.blogspot.com/2007/07/vote-sam-watson-for-senate-in.html | accessdate =
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References
*cite news | title = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit| publisher = The University of Queensland, Australia | date = | url = http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=41868 | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Sam Watson of the Biri Gubba & Munnenjarl Nations | publisher = Songlines | date = | url = http://www.songlines.org/patrons/index.htm | accessdate =
*cite news | title = Tim Stewart interview: Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice | publisher = Green Left Iss.599 | date = September 22, 2004 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/599/31747 | accessdate =
Other Reading
* cite book | last = Bryson | first = John | title = Discussion Notes on Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung | publisher = Victoria. Council of Adult Education
date = 1994 | location = Melbourne | url =
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Indigenous Australian activist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1952
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