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LATER Australia Post boss stood down over luxury watch purchases

LATER Australia Post boss stood down over luxury watch purchases

LATER Australia Post boss stood down over luxury watch purchases
Oct 22, 2020 1 min, 31 secs

Australia Post boss Christine Holgate is resisting pressure to quit over revelations she purchased luxury watches for senior executives who secured a controversial banking deal, instead temporarily standing aside during an investigation.

"We are the shareholders of Australia Post on behalf of the Australian people … she has been instructed to stand aside, if she doesn’t wish to do that, she can go!" Mr Morrison said.

Some federal government MPs said privately Ms Holgate should quit, with Victorian Liberal senator James Paterson calling publicly for her immediate resignation.

"Australia Post is self-funding but having said that they're a government-business enterprise that is reportable to a minister and therefore the Parliament so while it's not taxpayer funded, it still has an accountability to the government," she said.

Ms Holgate told the hearing the four watches were given to executives Gary Starr, Deanne Keetelaar, Anna Bennett and Greg Sutherland after the Bank@Post deal was finalised, recognition of their work.

Former Victorian Labor minister Philip Dalidakis quit Australia Post in February, one of a series of departures which included executives Amanda Murray-Johnson, Janelle Hopkins and Paul Urquhart.

Communications Union national secretary Greg Rayner said gifts for highly paid executives were outrageous.

"Australia Post is self-funding, but having said that they're a government-business enterprise that is reportable to a minister and therefore the Parliament, so while it's not taxpayer funded, it still has an accountability to the government.".

Ms Holgate has been forced to defend her tenure at Australia Post amid a series of controversies, including threats to call in the police over delays to the delivery of Pauline Hanson-branded stubby holders destined for residents of Melbourne's locked-down public housing towers in September.

Bonuses for Australia Post executives were vetoed by the board.

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