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Sam Watson (Samuel William Watson) was born on 16 November, 1952 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is an Indigenous Australian activist. Discover Sam Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Samuel William Watson
Occupation Writer · filmmaker · political activist
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 16 November, 1952
Birthday 16 November
Birthplace Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date of death 27 November, 2019
Died Place Brisbane
Nationality Australia

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Children 2, including Samuel Wagan Watson

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1869

His grandfather worked in ring-barking camps and saved enough money to hire a lawyer to release him from the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869.

He was one of the first Aboriginal people to achieve this status.

1952

Samuel William Watson (16 November 1952 – 27 November 2019), also known as Sammy Watson Jnr, was an Aboriginal Australian activist from the 1970s, who in later life stood as a Socialist Alliance candidate.

Watson was born in 1952 in Brisbane, Queensland, the grandson of Sam Watson, who was of the Birri Gubba nation, while his grandmother was a Munaldjali woman.

1967

Watson's first foray into Indigenous rights activism started when he was just 16, handing out how-to-vote cards at the 1967 referendum.

He developed a strategy which entailed seeking equality for Indigenous Australians "by elevating the race struggle to a class struggle".

1970

Watson was involved with, and a spokesperson for, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in its early days in the 1970s.

1971

He is known for being a co-founder of the Australian Black Panther Party in 1971/2.

In 1971, Watson and fellow Brisbane activist Denis Walker founded the Australian Black Panther Party, also known as the Black Panther Party of Australia (Brisbane Chapter), declaring it "the vanguard for all depressed people, and in Australia the Aboriginals are the most depressed of all".

He protested the Bjelke-Petersen government's treatment of Aboriginal people, and marched against the 1971 Springbok rugby tour, the Vietnam war, and for civil liberties.

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 fictionalised exploration of the commission's findings.

1972

The new party's manifesto was declared at a conference held at Queensland University from 28 January to 2 February 1972, saying that it would "work in a revolutionary way to achieve human rights for Aboriginal people and the alleviation of racism and racist government policy".

Its stated aims were "Freedom, full employment, an end to robbery by the white man of the black community, restitution to the dispossessed, land and mineral rights, decent housing, education relevant to black history and culture, exemption from military service, an end to police brutality, murder and rape of black people, freedom for blacks in gaol, all blacks to be tried by people from their peer group, United Nations plebiscite of blacks in Australia, land, bread, housing, clothing, justice and peace".

Watson said that many Indigenous Australians were inspired by the American Black Panther Party.

1990

Through work at the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service in the early 1990s, Watson was involved in implementing the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

He was also a writer and a filmmaker, and received honours for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung.

Watson is also a writer and a filmmaker, known for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung and his 1995 film Black Man Down.

In 1990, Watson won the FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award to an Aboriginal Writer.

1991

He won the National Indigenous Writer of the Year Award in 1991 for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung.

It was also shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.

2004

Watson was the Indigenous rights spokesperson for the Socialist Alliance, and ran as their candidate in the 2004 and 2007 federal election in Queensland.

2009

From 2009 was deputy director at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.

He was a candidate for that party at the 2009 state election for the seat of South Brisbane, running against the ALP state premier Anna Bligh.

Watson received 344 votes (1.36%).

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.

In October 2009, Watson was one of several people who criticised the supermarket chain Coles for naming its house brand line of biscuits "Creole Creams".

Coles subsequently decided to repackage and rename the product.

2010

He represented the Socialist Alliance again as a candidate for the Senate in the 2010 federal election, where he received 3,806 votes (0.12%).

2012

Watson was a member of the working party involved in the creation of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) in 2012.

2013

Watson features in an episode of the 2013 documentary TV series [Desperate Measures about the Black Panthers.

2017

His essay, Blood on the Boundary, shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize, was highly commended by the judges who commented that it "stands out for its vigour, for its muscularity and recklessness of style. It is also very funny, in its own weird way".

2019

Watson died at a hospital in Brisbane on 27 November 2019.

He was remembered as "a giant of the Brisbane activist community".

Queensland deputy premier Jackie Trad said that "Across more than half a century, he made an indelible contribution to the advancement of the rights of Indigenous Australians".

2020

In July 2020 memorial to Watson was created in the form of a mural in Bunyapa Park, in West End, Brisbane, painted by Kamilaroi street artist Warraba Weatherall.

His lifelong partner was Cathy.

Watson's son is the poet Samuel Wagan Watson, and a grandson is known as Sam Watson the fifth.