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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.

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%).[http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/state2009/results/district73.html 2009 State General Election – South Brisbane – District Summary], Electoral Commission Queensland 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%).[http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/guide/sqld-results.htm Senate Results – Queensland], Australian Broadcasting Corporation

{{Asof|December 2009}}, Watson is a deputy director at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland and teaches two courses in Black Australian Literature.[http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=41868#sam Unit Staff], Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit 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.

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.".[http://www.theage.com.au/national/coles-backs-down-over-racist--biscuit-20091027-hhjx.html "Coles backs down over 'racist' biscuit"] by Joshua Hoey, The Age, 27 October 2009 This reading of the word "creole" was rejected by the Australian academic linguist Roland Sussex who could find no basis for this claim."Whichever way, the cookie crumbles" by Roland Sussex, The Courier-Mail, etc supplement, p. 22, 5–6 December 2009

;Fiction

• The Kadaitcha Sung, Penguin Books, 1990. {{ISBN|978-0140111729}}, assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council

;Film

• Black Man Down, Australia, April 1996, directed by Bill McCrow{{Imdb title|0482080|Black Man Down}} {{Failed verification|date=December 2009}}

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• {{cite news | title = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit| publisher = University of Queensland, Australia | date = | url = http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=41868 | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Tim Stewart interview: Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice | publisher = Green Left Iss. 599 | date = September 22, 2004 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/599/31747 | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Karen Fletcher article: Sam Watson: a life-long fighter against racism| publisher = Green Left Iss. 465 | date = September 19, 2001 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/465/25170 | accessdate = }}

• {{cite news | title = Socialist Alliance Candidates | publisher = Socialist Alliance | year = 2004 | url = http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=302 | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Sign up for Sam Watson | publisher = Green Left Weekly Iss. 681 | date = November 17, 1993 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/35137 | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = An Interview with Sam Watson | publisher = Salamanca Writers’ Festival, Hobart| date = June 1995 | url = http://walleahpress.com.au/int-watson.html | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Sam Watson Interview by Kirrin McKechnie | publisher = ABC Stateline | date = March 4, 2005 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/qld/content/2005/s1316159.htm | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Sam Watson's New Vision for Australia| url = http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=670 | accessdate = }}
• {{cite news | title = Sam Watson's election profile | url = http://socialistalliance-brisbane.blogspot.com/2007/07/vote-sam-watson-for-senate-in.html | accessdate = }}

• {{cite book | last = Bryson | first = John | title = Discussion Notes on Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung | publisher = Victoria. Council of Adult Education

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