Background
Williams is the son of Allen Williams, a former heavyweight boxing champion of Australia and the South Pacific and Margaret Williams, the daughter of English migrants from Cornwall.
Williams is the son of Allen Williams, a former heavyweight boxing champion of Australia and the South Pacific and Margaret Williams, the daughter of English migrants from Cornwall.
His family was involved in the training of horses, and Williams followed in the family footsteps and trained horses for more than 30 years. From 1985, he worked for Glenorie Business Company at Dural. Williams previously was a panel beater and maintenance manager with the Hillsbus company.
He was serving as a councillor on Baulkham Hills Shire Council until September 2008.
He was a former President of the Kellyville Rouse Hill Progress Association. Williams led a campaign of roadside protests to highlight the need for the upgrade of Windsor Road.
In 2003, Williams contest the seat of Riverstone, and was unsuccessful. In an internal Liberal Party preselection prior to the 2007 State election, Williams defeated incumbent Steven Pringle.
As a result, Pringle decided to run for the seat as an independent candidate.
This claim was denied by Williams, and has not been substantiated. In 2008, Williams was ejected from state parliament by the Speaker Richard Torbay for pretending to wrestle a toy iguana, in reference to the Belinda Neal – John Della Bosca scandal known as Iguanagate. Since his election to parliament, Williams has been appointed the Deputy Chair of the Liberal Party"s Western Sydney Taskforce.
In June 2010, Williams was appointed the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Western Sydney and replaced Wayne Merton who retired.
At the 2015 state election, with Dominic Perrottet, they were preselected for each other"s seat and both were elected, effecting a "seat-swap" with Williams elected as the Member for Castle Hill.
In 2007, Williams was accused of branch stacking after a local pastor stated in a statutory declaration that Williams paid him party membership fees for churchgoers.
He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Castle Hill for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2015 and before that, the seat of Hawkesbury between 2007 and 2015.
