The 44-year-old's poem about the Stolen Generation was crowned the winner by audience vote at the Opera House.
Rob Waters recent triumph at the Australian Poetry Slam national final hasn't quite sunk in yet. The Gomeroi man says he's still processing the win that came before it. "It's just been a crazy few days. I won the New South Wales final the day before I won the Australian Finals, so even that still hasn't sunk in yet.
"We've been telling stories in this country since the first sun came up. So it's continuing a family tradition." Waters' winning poem confronted the dark reality of the Stolen Generations, focusing on one of the most notorious institutions in the nation's history. "It's about the Kinchella Boys home and the news recently that said there may have been grave sites there ," he said.
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