Samuel is an Australian political activist, filmmaker, author.
Background
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 Wagen Watson.
Career
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%). 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%).
Drama:
Oodgeroo - Bloodline to Country, 2009.
Fiction:
The Kadaitcha Sung, Penguin Books, 1990.
Film:
Black Man Down, Australia, April 1996, directed by Bill McCrow.