Put yourself in Ian Cambridge's position - how would you feel when you found out that your union's lawyer Julia Gillard not only set it up, she knew it was dodgy, she knew Wilson was wanted for fraud and she said nothing - Michael Smith News

You take your job seriously.

You are there to work for your members, to improve their lot, to manage and account for their money.    And if the absolute worst thing should happen to a member at work, to band together and help the bereaved family.

Just imagine how Ian Cambridge would have felt that day.   Now try to think how you would react when you learned much later still that Julia Gillard knew all along.   She knew about the slush fund in 1992.   She went to the auction and did the conveyance of a property bought with slush fund money.   She vouched for her boyfriend's $150,000 mortgage which laundered money he wasn't entitled to (either from the slush fund or the living away from home allowance stolen from the union, he was not entitled to living away from home allowance if he was living in a house he owned in Melbourne).

If you've been reading this blog you are a little bit ahead of the rest of the nation.   Buy The Australian today and encourage your friends to buy it.   It will be a useful guide to some of the parliamentary proceedings in Canberra over the next fornight - The Senate next week and The House the week after.

Julie Bishop asked the Prime Minister why the PM did not discharge her civic duty to report, to authorities, the existence and misuse of the AWUWRA when she became aware Wilson was up to no good (ie by 11 September, 1995 at the latest).   The Prime Minister told the parliament that the AWUWRA was "already the subject of inquiry and investigation".  

Even if it was, that's not enough for a citizen to complete his or her obligation where the citizen has special knowledge of the felony.   Ms Gillard had special information to offer authorities and she did not take it to authorities.  

This week, authorities will be busy hearing from other citizens who take their duty more seriously than does their sub prime minister.

Thanks to Hedley Thomas and The Australian for doing what great newspapers should do.

And how much do you have to learn from Ian Cambridge and the way that he took his job so seriously and did it so diligently.   What a record is revealed by Mr Cambridge's daily synopsis, his dictaphone diary records.

Read full article here: Michael Smith News