Christine Holgate deserves an apology. (SMH, Alex Ellinghausen)
Christine Holgate is owed an apology from Prime Minister Scott Morrison after she was unfairly dismissed, a Senate Committee has found.
Concluding its inquiry into her departure, it recommended Communications Minister Paul Fletcher and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham do so also, with Senator Pauline Hanson saying both were “equally culpable”.
The Senators also called for her old boss and adversary, chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo, stand down as well.
The federal government may not have realised it at the time, but its handling of the Christine Holgate saga has been akin to kicking a hornet’s nest. If it hadn’t before, there is now no avoiding the stings.