Opinion: How fitting that in the same week the Morrison government holds its nose to table a lavish, woman-friendly budget we’re treated to a fresh instalment in the exquisite revenge of Christine Holgate
from Australia Post – she claims she was bullied out of her job – and amid wrangling with her former employer about mediation.
During lockdown we became especially dependent on Australia’s bastardised , ever-diminishing and reliably unreliable. The revelations about the back-slapping and casual elitism of the Post’s top brass rankled more than usual. Not to mention Holgate reportedly urging the board to fork out $7 million in bonuses to senior managers before public pressure killed the idea.At some point, however, my consciousness was raised about Holgate’s gendered doing-over.
I cannot prove Morrison would have hesitated before scapegoating a male executive in the same manner just to win the daily news cycle. I cannot prove a male executive would have been spared the subsequent rubbing of salt in the wounds, as when thejust 24 hours before the Senate was due to inquire into Holgate’s departure. I just feel in my bones it is so.
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