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Nicole Watson Nicole Watson i(A97521 works by) (a.k.a. Nicole Louise Watson)
Born: Established: 1973 ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Birri-Gubba Juru ; Aboriginal Yugambeh / Yugumbir
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BiographyHistory

Nicole Watson is a member of the Birri-Gubba People and the Yugambeh language group. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology and was enrolled in the PhD program at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University.

Watson was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1999. She has worked for Legal Aid Queensland, the National Native Title Tribunal and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. Her area of research is the legal recognition of Indigenous relationships with land. A former editor of the Indigenous Law Bulletin and former columnist for the National Indigenous Times, she joined Tracker magazine as a monthly columnist in 2011. she has been involved in the Indigenous Mentoring Program at the New South Wales Writers Centre and the First Nations of Australia Writers Network.

She has published extensively on issues relating to Indigenous Australians and the law, especially in relation to the Northern Territory Intervention, to issues of land ownership and connection to country, and the particular difficulties facing Aboriginal women.

In 2016, she was appointed to the University of Sydney Law School.

As of 2017, Watson has published one novel, The Boundary. An earlier novel, Return of the Clever Man, was shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award in 2007, but has not yet been published.

She is the daughter of writer and activist Sam Watson and sister of Samuel Wagan Watson.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Boundary 2009 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1622544 2009 single work novel crime (taught in 2 units)

'Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People's native title claim on Brisbane's Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead.

Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane's city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary. The Corrowa's matriarch, Ethel Cobb, is convinced the murders are the work of an ancient assassin who has returned to destroy the boundary, but Aboriginal lawyer Miranda Eversely isn't so sure.

When the Premier is kidnapped, the pressure to find the killer intensifies ... While the investigation forces Detective Sergeant Jason Matthews to confront his buried heritage, Miranda battles a sense of personal failure at the Corrowa's defeat. How far will it take her to the edge of self-destruction?' Source: www.uqp.com.au/ (Sighted 25/03/2011).

2012 Shortlisted Commonwealth Book Prize
2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Indigenous Writing
2012 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2009 winner Queensland Literary Awards Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award
y separately published work icon Return of the Clever Man 2007 (Manuscript version)x402159 Z1431169 2007 single work novel
2007 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award
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