Barely five months since her chairmanship of AGL Energy exploded during liftoff, Paula Dwyer has done what almost every businessperson in her position cannot resist doing: publicly raking over the ashes of her misadventure.

Hers began as so many of these exercises in self-soothing begin. Dwyer stoically refused to comment on “the AGL affair”, and then proceeded to bemoan a hypothetical situation almost identical to the AGL affair.