William Patrick Ludwig OAM, Australian trade union official, is National President and former Queensland state secretary of the Australian Workers\' Union (AWU), one of Australia\'s oldest and largest unions.\n', '

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.\n', '

In 1982 Ludwig was elected as the South Western District Secretary of the AWU in Queensland, a position he held until he was elected as the Secretary of the state branch in Queensland in 1988.\n', '

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