Pamela Williams (born 1954) is an Australian

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and author. Commencing her career at '' BRW'', Williams is best known for her work with ''

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'', where she worked from 1987 until 2014. After working in various positions at the newspaper including being the

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and

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, Williams left ''The Australian Financial Review'' in 2014 to pursue a career in writing novels. Williams had previously written two best-selling non-fiction books. In 1997, Williams authored ''The Victory'' detailing the

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's victory at the

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and in 2013, Williams wrote ''Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge,'' which looked at the decline of Australian media company Fairfax and won the 2013

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.' In December 2014, Williams joined ''

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'' as a senior writer. In 2019, Williams wrote an essay for ''

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'', focusing on the

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. During her career, Williams has been awarded six

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, including the

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in 1998 for her story ''A Plan To Smash A Union'', investigating the

1998 Australian waterfront dispute The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was an event in Australian industrial relations history, in which the Patrick Corporation undertook a restructuring of their operations for the purpose of dismissing their workforce. The restructuring by ...

. Williams' other awards include the

Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of Graham Perkin, who was editor of ''The ...

, a

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Quill Award and the

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George Munster Award. Williams rejoined The Australian Financial Review as Writer-at-large in May 2019.

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