1952 - 2019
Sam Watson (activist) Australian Writer
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| First Name |
Sam
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| Last Name |
Watson
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| Birthday |
16th November, 1952
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| Birthplace |
Australia
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| Died |
27th November, 2019
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| Place of Death |
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio
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| Nationality |
Australian
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| Occupation Text |
Writer, filmmaker, political activist
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| Occupation |
Writer
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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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