Sam Watson (activist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indigenous Australian activist and writer
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Place of Birth: Queensland, Australia
About Sam Watson (activist)
- Samuel William Watson (16 November 1952 – 27 November 2019) was an Aboriginal Australian activist and a socialist politician.
- 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.
- In December 2009, Watson was appointed a deputy director at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland and taught two courses in Black Australian Literature.
- He was also a writer and a filmmaker.
- He received honours for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung.
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