‘I was seriously ill, I was suicidal’: Christine Holgate breaks her silence13/04/2021|8min
Former Australia Post Chief Executive Christine Holgate has told a Senate inquiry, at the height of the Cartier watch scandal she was prescribed temazepam and admitted to being “seriously ill” and “suicidal”.
Ms Holgate told the Senate inquiry into the Cartier watch scandal and her exit from Australia Post, that during the height of the saga after she had left the organisation she was “going through hell”.
The former CEO said she tried to make contact with senior government ministers, and was promised a sit down meeting with Communications Minister Paul Fletcher after initially contacting Finance Minister Simon Birmingham.
Ex-Australia Post boss opens up on alleged bullying that forced her out of top job
Christine Holgate defended her decision to gift watches to executives as bonus
Described PM s attack of her one of worse acts of bullying I ve ever witnessed
Called on Scott Morrison to apologise and hasn t ruled out taking legal action
Ms Holgate decided to speak out because I want to stop to workplace bullying
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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 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.
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