David Williams

Who is 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. He now currently is the editor of the Mt. Eden New Zealand magazine called "The Garden".

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 2007. His dissertation, entitled "A Dialogic Reimagining of a Servant's Suffering: Understanding Second Isaiah's suffering Servant as a Polyphonic Hero", constructs a literary methodology which became the basis of Williams' work in epistemology. His thesis reexamined the character of the suffering Servant in the OT book of Isaiah to show how personhood is created dialogically.