Maureen Watson Turning point and Achievement

Turning point

1- Maureen was brought up in the Dawson Valley, her mother’s Kungulu country.
2-So as a teenager she worked beside her father, becoming skilled at shooting kangaroos, trapping dingoes, mustering, droving and branding cattle, picking cotton, planting seed crops, driving tractors and bulldozers
3-At 21 she married Harold Bayles, a Wakka Wakka man from Eidsvold
4-in 1970 Maureen with their family of five children moved to Brisbane
5- in 1982, facing arrest during demonstrations

Achievement point

1-She joined the fledgling Aboriginal rights movement and commenced an arts degree at the University of Queensland
2-first National Aboriginal Theatre Workshop in Sydney and a Black Film-makers course
3-Her first collection of stories and poems, Black Reflections was published in 1982
4-In 1996 she was awarded the Australia Council Red Ochre award in recognition of her national and international contribution towards recognition of Aboriginal arts.
5- Also she received the inaugural United Nations Association Global Leadership Prize for her outstanding work towards building cross-cultural understanding and harmony
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