Even after her hare-brained, self-serving scheming has been debunked, and long since her ongoing obsession with Australia Post became creepy, Christine Holgate remains indefatigable.

Holgate is now the CEO of Australia Post’s parcel competitor Team Global Express, owned by private equity barbarians Allegro Funds. In May, she commissioned then shopped around dodgy economic research that purported to show forcing Australia Post to deliver her parcels in regional Australia for 14¢ a pop would generate economic benefits to absolutely everyone. You shouldn’t need an economics degree to detect suspect methodology there.