“This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.”
That line – from the satirical British current affairs television program BrassEye – could easily be reverberating through federal government offices this week.
Yesterday the news dropped that Christine Holgate, the Australia Post chief executive pushed so roughly from her job by the Morrison government, has a new job with a rival delivery company.
Holgate resigned last November, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison told parliament she been told to stand aside over the “optics” of rewarding four senior managers with luxury watches, worth about $20,000 – and “if she doesn’t wish to do that, she can go”.