February 2022
Australia Post denies incentive payments are bonuses
Board chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo says executives receive additional salary based on their performance.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2021
PM should apologise to Holgate over ouster: report
A Senate inquiry into the Cartier watches saga says Australia Post board chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo should resign and new directors be named.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia Post relocating to Melbourne’s hipster fringe
Australia Post is moving to a new headquarters in trendy Burnley, in Melbourne’s the inner-east, joining a number of corporates in the neighbourhood who have left CBD life behind.
- Nick Lenaghan
AusPost pushes Holgate to make legal demands public
The Australia Post board has pushed back on Christine Holgate’s demands ahead of the former chief executive’s Wednesday 5pm deadline to conduct mediation.
- Tom McIlroy
Holgate delivers Morrison government legal ultimatum
The former Australia Post boss wants an answer on mediation plans by 5pm on Wednesday, with her lawyers preparing to consider legal action.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
April 2021
Entire Australia Post board called before Christine Holgate inquiry
The entire board of Australia Post has been called to give evidence to the Christine Holgate inquiry, with senators set to use the hearing to highlight Liberal Party links to the corporation’s leadership.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia Post ‘not about to be privatised’: Frydenberg
Former chief executive Christine Holgate has called for the release of the BCG report that recommended a partial sale of Australia Post.
- Tom McIlroy
How a 10-day ‘firestorm’ blew up Holgate’s career
The crisis at the top of Australia Post remains a series of claims and counter claims, sparked by $20,000 worth of watches.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Holgate saga an embarrassment for Australia’s political class
The blame for the massive overreaction that cost Australia Post its high-achieving chief executive needs to be sheeted home to the hyper-political culture in Canberra.
- The AFR View
PM denies his treatment of Christine Holgate was sexist
Scott Morrison says he regrets the hurt felt by the former Australia Post boss but will not apologise for what he calls a “very strong response” to an issue unrelated to gender.
- Tom McIlroy
PM bullied me out of my job, says ‘humiliated’ Holgate
In dramatic evidence to Parliament, former Australia Post boss Christine Holgate claimed Scott Morrison instructed her removal based on ‘fabricated’ evidence.
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- Tom McIlroy
Australia Post chairman won’t quit over Cartier watches saga
Australia Post chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo has conceded Christine Holgate was treated ‘abysmally’ in a firestorm sparked by executive bonuses, but won’t quit or apologise to the former chief executive.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Executive shake-up
Humiliated by the PM, bullied by my chairman
This is the day that the chairman of Australia Post and the other men involved in what happened to me never saw coming.
- Christine Holgate
‘Fish rots from the head’ in Christine Holgate saga: Shaun Bonett
A former Deutsche Post DHL executive, the experienced supply chain and retail boss will take over in September.
- Tom McIlroy
- Analysis
- Leadership lessons
Holgate and AusPost chairman were an unlikely combination
Lucio Di Bartolomeo built a reputation as a reliable manager of government businesses, and the Australia Post saga is not his first crisis.
- Aaron Patrick
AusSuper board seats Holgate’s friends and enemies
Christine Holgate blames AusSuper director Lucio Di Bartolomeo for her treatment at Australia Post. But AusSuper CEO Ian Silk is on the record as a fan.
- Myriam Robin
October 2020
Post boss Christine Holgate's suspension notice still in mail
Lawyers say the embattled chief executive is being denied procedural fairness in an investigation into the purchase of Cartier watches.
- Tom McIlroy and Simon Evans