Sam Watson
Novelist, Politician
1952 –
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Who is Sam Watson?
Samuel William "Sam" Watson is an Australian Aboriginal activist and a socialist politician. He is the grandson of Sam Watson who was of the Birri Gubba tribe. His grandfather worked in ring-barking camps and saved enough money to hire a lawyer to release him from the Aboriginal Protection Act. He was one of the first Aboriginal people to achieve this status. Watson's son is the poet Samuel Wagan Watson.
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- Born
- Nov 16, 1952
Brisbane - Children
- Ethnicity
- Indigenous Australians
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Lived in
- Queensland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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