Sam Watson

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Sam Watson
Born	1952 Queensland
Occupation	Writer, filmmaker, political activist
Children	Samuel Wagan Watson, Nicole Watson

Sam Watson (b. 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.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Film 2 External links 3 Notes 4 References 5 Other Reading

[edit] Works

[edit] Fiction

• The Kadaitcha Sung (Penguin Books, assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1990)

[edit] Film

• Black Man Down, (Australia, April 1996) Directed by Bill McCrow ^[1]

[edit] External links

• "Sam Watson: a life-long fighter against racism", Interview by Karen Fletcher, Green Left Weekly, September 19, 2001. 
• "Socialist Alliance Candidates", Socialist Alliance, 2004. 
• "Justice for Mulriji , no more cover-ups", Cop Watch - Brisbane Socialist Alliance, December 16, 2006. 
• "No to Beattie's aparthied", Article by Dave Riley on Melbourne Indymedia, December 19, 2006. 
• "Sign up for Sam Watson", Green Left Weekly Iss.681, November 17, 1993. 
• "Sam Watson", Brisbane Writer's Festival: The Writers are in Town, 2005. 
• "An Interview with Sam Watson", Salamanca Writers’ Festival, Hobart, June 1995. 
• "Sam Watson Interview by Kirrin McKechnie", ABC, Stateline, March, 4 2005. 
• "Sam Watson's New Vision for Australia". 
• "Sam Watson's election profile". 

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit", The University of Queensland, Australia. 
• "Sam Watson of the Biri Gubba & Munnenjarl Nations", Songlines. 
• "Tim Stewart interview: Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice", Green Left Iss.599, September 22, 2004. 

[edit] Other Reading

• Bryson, John (1994). Discussion Notes on Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung. Melbourne: Victoria. Council of Adult Education. OCLC: 38391936. 

Persondata
NAME	Watson, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Indigenous Australian activist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH