Christine Holgate

This Month

Health

Our obsession with junk food is creating a type 2 diabetes crisis

Dr James Muecke was Australian of the year in 2020, but his message about the mounting dangers of highly processed foods was swamped by COVID. Now he wants subsidies to big junk food slashed.

Updated Dec 16, 2024
Terry Plane

October

Rail

Aurizon has been trialling importing cars into Darwin and putting them on trains to South Australia

Aurizon investors impatient for Top End contracts

Aurizon is in “regular” talks with potential customers for its ambitious land bridge scheme, but scepticism abounds over whether it can pull the bold plan off.

Oct 3, 2024
Jenny Wiggins

September

AFR Weekend

Simon Hartley, 59, called time on his iconic Melbourne restaurant Becco on Friday.

‘Beautiful chaos’: Iconic Melbourne power diner owner calls time

Simon Hartley has hosted every prime minister since Gough Whitlam at his CBD restaurant Becco. But on Friday, he held the last supper.

Sep 13, 2024
Gus McCubbing

August

Rear Window

Team Global Express chief Christine Holgate: certainly very motivated

Holgate’s Australia Post campaign fails to deliver

The thing about claiming to speak for the masses is you never really want to test the proposition.

Aug 5, 2024
Myriam Robin

June

Private equity

TGE chief executive Christine Holgate said the $190 million debt deal – its second with CBA – positively reinforced the company’s turnaround plan.

Team Global Express signs $190m debt deal

The private equity-backed logistics company has refinanced debt with Commonwealth Bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and IFM Investors.

Jun 6, 2024
Aaron Weinman

March

Exclusive
Foreign relations

A Thai garment vendor pushes his cart crossing the pedestrian lane at a busy street in Bangkok, Thailand, 21 September 2015.

Australia in peril unless it seizes South-East Asia future: business

Australia invests more in New Zealand than it does in South-East Asia. That needs to change.

Mar 3, 2024
Andrew Tillett

February

Rear Window

Team Global Express chief executive Christine Holgate argues sharing last-mile infrastructure will help regional communities.

Christine Holgate still gunning for Australia Post

Making Australia Post cheaply distribute its competitors’ parcels would hamper Australia Post’s finances. For Christine Holgate, that might be a bonus.

Feb 4, 2024
Myriam Robin

November 2023

Exclusive
Aviation

Scott Morrison’s electorate of Cook extends near to Sydney Airport.

Scott Morrison emerges to fight early morning Sydney Airport noise

Officials are considering cancelling special allowances for cargo operators to fly outside curfew after the ex-PM wrote to Labor demanding it be scrapped.

Nov 15, 2023
Kylar Loussikian

Infrastructure Summit

Christine Holgate revives quest to access AusPost’s infrastructure

The former Australia Post boss said she still believed in the proposal, despite negotiations taking longer than she would like.

Nov 13, 2023
Nick Bonyhady

September 2023

AFL grand final

Brisbane Lions director and businesswoman Cathie Reid in Paris this week with her Lions scarf.

Lions tragic hops from Brisbane to Melbourne – via Paris

AFR Rich Lister and Brisbane Lions director Cathie Reid is dashing back from the French capital to watch her team in Saturday’s AFL grand final.

Sep 29, 2023
Mark Ludlow

Street Talk

Team Global Express boss Christine Holgate.

Eyes on Team Global Express’ soaring loan bill

Accounts show the logistics giant is sitting on a syndicated asset-backed loan with a carrying value of $134.5 million.

Sep 21, 2023
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Rear Window

Christine Holgate is chief executive of Team Global Express.

Christine Holgate’s Australia Post jihad resumes

The former Australia Post CEO should find alternative means to soothe her wounded pride.

Updated Sep 14, 2023
Joe Aston

August 2023

Street Talk

Christine Holgate is the chief executive of Team Global Express.

Allegro’s Team Global Express appoints UBS to gauge inbound interest

Allegro acquired Team Global Express from Japan Post two years ago. The bank has been engaged in a broad-ranged advisory role.

Aug 28, 2023
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

June 2023

Rear Window

Christine Holgate opposed privatisations.

Holgate’s comeback tour takes in Nats party room

It’ll be an unholy day when parliament’s agrarian socialists fully embrace the barbarians of private equity.

Jun 12, 2023
Myriam Robin

May 2023

Rear Window

Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate.

Christine Holgate can’t let go of Australia Post

She may no longer be the CEO, but she still has Australia Post on her liver.

May 17, 2023
Joe Aston

Media & marketing

Forbes Australia founder Michael Lane with businesswoman and model Miranda Kerr at the Forbes Women’s Summit.

Forbes Australia cancels wealth summit seven months after launch

The new business publication put a “pause” on the big-name summit, saying the timing wasn’t right to hold the event.

May 16, 2023
Mark Di Stefano

E-commerce

A contested report into the demise of Christine Holgate’s reign at Australia Post has called for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to apologise and the board’s chairman to resign.

Holgate pushes to share AusPost’s ‘last mile’ services

The Team Global Express boss says consumers would get their online shopping parcels quicker from access to publicly owned “last mile” delivery infrastructure.