William Patrick Ludwig OAM, Australian trade union official, is National President and former Queensland Branch Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), one of Australia's oldest and largest unions.
Ludwig was born in Queensland in 1934, and was educated at Marist College in the Brisbane suburb of Ashgrove. He began his working life as a shearer and remained in the pastoral industry until 1971 when he became an employee of the AWU.
In 1982 Ludwig was elected as the South Western District Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the AWU, a position he held until he was elected as the Secretary of the Queensland Branch in 1988.
Ludwig was head of the powerful Labor Forum or AWU Faction which dominates the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party. Ludwig was a member of the ALP National Executive and Vice President of the ALP's Queensland Branch.[1] His son Joseph Ludwig is an ALP Senator from Queensland[2] and was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister Assisting on Queensland Flood Recovery
In the 1997 Australia Day Honours he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to Industrial Relations through The Australian Workers' Union"[3] and in 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal.[4]
References
- ^ Walker, Jamie (16 April 2011). "Bill Ludwig unloads on Kevin Rudd". The Australian.
- ^ "Labor's shadow men stuck knife into Rudd". 24 June 2010.
- ^ "William Patrick Ludwig". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ "William Patrick Ludwig". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
External links
- Profile on the AWU National Website