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No checks and balances as Holgate takes the high road – Sydney Morning Herald
The exit of Christine Holgate does not absolve genuine questions about the governance culture inside Australia Post.
The message wasn’t lost on Holgate.
“She knew instantly she was gone,” says one confidante who spoke to Holgate within half-an-hour of the Prime Minister’s remarks.
“She said ‘that’s it, I’m done. I can’t come back from this’.”
It took her another 11 days to quit, as her camp kicked into reputation-salvage mode and rallied high-profile business leaders and political figures in her defence.
As she bowed out on Monday, she attributed her demise to a failure to appreciate the “optics” of the luxury…
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