Commissioner Ian Walter Cambridge.

MONDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2012

I would like to set the record straight about Ian Cambridge and also to set out a few ground-rules for this little 

piece of the internet.No human I know of could have done more to bring The AWU Scandal to the attention of 

the proper authorities than Ian Cambridge did.Commissioner Cambridge's call for a Royal Commission into 

his union was unprecedented and it remains a unique call to root out union corruption.

 

Ian Cambridge and his family, small children, suffered greatly as a direct result of his honesty and his 

action. In that regard he has something in common with Bob Kernohan and latterly Kathy Jackson.

While it must have been a relief to move on to a job at the New South Wales Industrial Relations 

Commission, you'd be hard-pressed to describe it as a bribe. The published salary package for an IRC 

commissioner in NSW at the time was considerably less than the package for the National Secretary of the

AWU.

You know I don't impose censorship - but I won't cop untrue and unfair defamation of a good man's character.  And Ian 

Cambridge is a good man.

MIchael Smith

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