[1] In 2007, she received her Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis, '"When you're black, they look at you harder": narrating Aboriginality within public health,' under the supervision of Mark Brough, Leonie Cox and Megan Jennaway.
[11] However, in 2019 she lodged a race and sex discrimination complaint against UQ and left the university for QUT,[12] where she began work as Professor of Indigenous Health on 26 July 2021.
[13] Watego has written for numerous publications including IndigenousX, NITV, ABC News, Meanjin, SBS, The Guardian and The Conversation.
In the episode, he and the hosts discussed a controversial joke he made in 2013 about Aboriginal women which Anita Heiss had called "disgusting and offensive".
[25] It is a collection of essays which "[examine] the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia,"[8] and has received positive reviews.
Declan Fry in The Guardian described it as "a fierce manifesto for First Nations to flourish,"[26] Kara Nicholson for "Readings" labelled it a "collection of sharply written, fiercely intelligent and engaging essays" and "absolutely essential reading,"[27] and Monique Grbec in Kill Your Darlings declared that it "[gave] agency, dignity and power in response to the shared experience of racism" and called it "Deadly".
[34][35] In 2018, Watego was arrested on charges of obstructing police and refusing to leave a licensed premise, after being forcibly removed from The Beat nightclub in Fortitude Valley.
[36] In October 2022, QCAT dismissed her complaint, with Newhouse stating that "the tribunal member felt that there wasn't enough evidence to convince him that the decisions that the police made were on the basis of race".