Sam Watson is one of the richest Politician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sam Watson's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Watson ran as a candidate for his party, the Socialist Alliance in the 2004 and 2007 federal elections in Queensland. Watson was a candidate for this party in the state election in 2009 in the state seat South Brisbane, running against the ALP state premier Anna Bligh. Watson got 344 votes (1.36 percent). He was a member of in the Socialist Alliance again as a candidate for the Senate in the federal election, and got 3,806 votes (0.12 percent).
In October 2009, retailer chain Coles announced it was renaming its own brand consisting of “Creole Creams” biscuits following an assertion by Watson saying that “the word Creole originates from a time where people’s morality was measured by the quantity of white blood in their bloodstreams. It’s the same type of thinking that was the basis for horrendous regimes such as those of the Nazis.” This interpretation that referred to the term “creole” was disapproved of by Australian scholar Roland Sussex who could find an argument to back the claim.
Watson died at a hospital in Brisbane on 27 November 2019.
