Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Before moving general business notice of motion No. 316, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Waters will also sponsor the motion. At the request of Senators Watt, McCarthy, Green, Dodson, Chisholm, Siewert and Waters, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) records its deep regret at the death, on 27 November 2019, of Mr Sam Watson, a proud member of the Munnenjarl and Biri Gubba Juru tribal nations, with blood ties to the Yuggera, Kalkadoon and Noonuccal peoples and one of Queensland's most significant Indigenous leaders;

(b) recognises the lifelong activism, leadership and advocacy for social justice and the rights of his people;

(c) places on record its appreciation of the long and tireless contribution Mr Sam Watson Senior made to the advancement of the rights of Indigenous Australians; and

(d) offers our condolences to his wife Cathy, his children Nicole Watson and Sam Wagan Watson, and the many Australians whose lives he has touched—we are all the poorer for his passing.

Question agreed to.