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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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1 y separately published work icon Aboriginal Women, Law and Critical Race Theory : Storytelling From The Margins Nicole Watson , Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2021 24006545 2021 multi chapter work criticism 'This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (‘CRT’) tool of ‘outsider’ or ‘counter’ storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and to resist their invisibility to law. Legal scholars are yet to use storytelling to bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the centre of legal scholarship and yet this book demonstrates how this can be done by way of a new methodology that combines elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author tells the imagined story of Eliza Woree who featured prominently in the backdrop to the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Dempsey v Rigg (1914) but whose voice was erased from the judgements. This accessible book adds a new and innovative dimension to the use of CRT to examine the nexus between race and settler colonialism. It speaks to those interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies.' (Publication summary)

1 A Tribute to a Man of Action Nicole Watson , 2019 single work obituary (for Sam Watson )
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 4 December no. 715 2019; (p. 4)
1 From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures – Where Is the Evidence That Aboriginal Women Are Leading Self-Determining Lives? Nicole Watson , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Intervention : An Anthology 2015; (p. 88-102)
1 The Monthly : Writing Out Our Mob Nicole Watson , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Tracker , October no. 7 2011; (p. 34) Although it regularly features essays on Aboriginal issues, Nicole Watson argues that The Monthly lacks an Aboriginal-based viewpoint and that there are no Aboriginal people writing for the magazine.
1 An Uncertain Mission Nicole Watson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 3 September vol. 8 no. 185 2009; (p. 23)
— Review of Up from the Mission : Selected Writings Noel Pearson , 2009 selected work autobiography biography prose
1 13 y separately published work icon The Boundary Nicole Watson , 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).

1 y separately published work icon Return of the Clever Man Nicole Watson , 2007 (Manuscript version)x402159 Z1431169 2007 single work novel
1 The Red Feather Murders Nicole Watson , 2006 single work novel
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