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A wronged woman with a razor-sharp mind and meticulous records is a dangerous creature. Especially when delivering a counter punch to a prime minister who’d denounced her in the bully pit of parliament…
Embattled former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate has told a Senate inquiry she was advised the prime minister requested she be stood down from her role.
Asked by Senator Kimberley Kitching whether any ties between the Australia Post board and the Liberal government had led to any conflicts of interest or decisions that were not in the interest of the company, Ms Holgate confirmed there had been.
“I was told, ‘Christine you need to understand it was the prime minister’,” she responded.
Probed further on the matter, Ms Holgate said a member of the board of directors, Tony Nutt, said to her to the request to stand her down came from the prime minister.
“Tony Nutt, in fairness, actually he was probably the most balanced person which is … clearly he has a very close relationship with the prime minister but he often was the person who would be more balanced with all political parties than the other politically appointed people,” she said.
A wronged woman with a razor-sharp mind and meticulous records is a dangerous creature.
Especially when delivering a counter punch to a prime minister who’d denounced her in the bully pit of parliament when he was ill-informed, angry and driven by short-term politics rather than balanced judgement.
Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, appearing before a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, inflicted a serious blow on Scott Morrison and left Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo badly wounded.
She followed this with a Tuesday night interview on the ABC’s
7.30 in which she gave Morrison another blast, describing his attack on her as an “utter disgrace” and “one of the worst acts of bullying” she’d ever seen. She urged him to call her and apologise.