David Williams

David Williams was a journalist with The West Australian in Perth, Western Australia. He also worked on the now defunct The Western Mail newspaper.

Williams authored the 1989 account of the failed drug run and subsequent execution of Australian drug runners, Kevin Barlow and Geoffrey Chambers. Titled This Little Piggy Stayed Home: Barlow, Chambers and the Mafia the book was one of the more controversial publications of Panorama Books. The book was never printed again following its initial release, despite continued demand, because of fears of litigation.

Williams continued as a journalist before managing a number of country newspapers for Rural Press Ltd. He was the founding managing editor of the Busselton-Dunsborough Mail in WA's south-west. His account of the volunteer effort to recover nine people killed in the Gracetown cliff collapse in 1996 was the only eyewitness account of those events, and it was one of the last major pieces he wrote as a journalist.

Williams later began theological studies and completed a PhD in Old Testament Theology in 2007. His dissertation, entitled "A Dialogic Reimagining of a Servant's Suffering: Understanding Second Isaiah's suffering Servant as a Polyphonic Hero", uses the theories of Soviet literary critic/philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin to reexamine the prophetic texts that came to be used by the early Church as evidence that Jesus Christ's death had atoned for the sins of the world.

Dr Williams is the new Head of School (Counselling) at Laidlaw College in Auckland. He is married with four daughters.

References

Book cited

• Williams, D. (1989). This little piggy stayed home : Barlow, Chambers and the Mafia Perth, W.A. Panorama Books ISBN 0949864218
• Williams, D.W. (2008). "New wings for a molting eagle: Isaiah's bold message to exiled Israel." In On Eagles' Wings: An Exploration of Strength in the Midst of Weakness. Eugene: Wipf and Stock ISBN 9781556351273

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