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As Christine Holgate gave four Australia Post staff a Cartier watch, at least 900 public servants received larger bonuses
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Australia Post chief Christine Holgate was forced to resign for giving executives luxury watches as rewards.
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An aide of Christine Holgate, the then head of Australia Post, walked into the Cartier jewellers in Melbourne s CBD on November 14, 2018, and bought four luxury watches.
The watches thank you gifts for executives who had secured a deal with three banks were worth, on average, $4,988 each.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Parliament last year that news of the gifts had appalled him. It s disgraceful and it s not on, he said.