| 词条 | Sam Watson (activist) |
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| image = Sam Watson Addresses Invasion Day Rally, Jan 26 2007, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.jpg | image_size = | name = Sam Watson | caption = Sam Watson, 2007 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|11|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Queensland, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Writer, filmmaker, political activist | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = Samuel Wagan Watson, Nicole Watson | parents = | relatives = | party = Socialist Alliance | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Samuel William "Sam" Watson (born 16 November 1952) is 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.[1] He is also a writer and a filmmaker. He has received honours for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung. LifeWatson 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. CareerThrough 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.[2] Watson has run as the candidate of the Socialist Alliance in the 2004 and 2007 federal election in 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%).[3] 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%).[4] 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.[1] He is also a writer and a filmmaker. He won the National Indigenous Writer of the Year Award in 1991 for his 1990 novel The Kadaitcha Sung[5] and acclaim for his 1995 film Black Man Down.{{citation needed|date=August 2015|reason=What acclaim?}} In October 2009, the supermarket chain Coles announced that it would rename its house brand line of "Creole Creams" biscuits following a statement by Watson that "the word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream. This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."[6] This reading of the word "creole" was rejected by the Australian academic linguist Roland Sussex who could find no basis for this claim.[7] Watson's 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".[8] Works
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| year = 1994 | location = Melbourne | url = | doi = | oclc = 38391936 | isbn = }} References1. ^1 Unit Staff {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026203041/http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=41868#sam |date=26 October 2009 }}, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/making-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-history-on-royal-commissions-with-uncle-sam-watson/|title=Making Aboriginal deaths in custody “history”: On Royal Commissions|last=Alizzi|first=John|date=17 June 2014|website=Right Now Human Rights in Australia|publisher=|access-date=14 January 2017}} 3. ^2009 State General Election – South Brisbane – District Summary {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003094905/http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/state2009/results/district73.html |date=3 October 2009 }}, Electoral Commission Queensland 4. ^Senate Results – Queensland, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://macquariepenanthology.com.au/SamWatson.html|title=Author profile: Sam Watson|last=|first=|date=|website=Macquarie PEN Anthology – Australian Literature Project|publisher=Allen & Unwin|access-date=14 January 2017}} 6. ^"Coles backs down over 'racist' biscuit" by Joshua Hoey, The Age, 27 October 2009 7. ^"Whichever way, the cookie crumbles" by Roland Sussex, The Courier-Mail, etc supplement, p. 22, 5–6 December 2009 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehorneprize.com.au/news|title=The Horne Prize - News|last=|first=|date=|website=The Horne Prize|language=en-us|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-04}} External links
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