We will refrain, in this column, from joining the canonisation committee of the martyred Christine Holgate.

It’s true, and we have previously argued, that in her ouster from Australia Post, she was treated appallingly by a political and media class more concerned with optics than the Cartier watch issue’s totally innocuous substance. But the conflation (by Holgate’s supporters) of the scourge of workplace bullying with a chairman’s difficult decision to oust a CEO who had lost the support of Australia Post’s only shareholder rather sticks in our craw.