Friday 29th of March 2024

extortion business...

extortion

It seems Oz Post CEO Ahmed Fahour might have found the perfect way to finally kill off the business. Paying millions to his executive team while laying off 900 postal workers who actually did something useful like, you know, delivering the post, was a good start.

But shaking down punters to collect packages that have already been paid for by the sender is the coup de grace.I think it's almost certainly illegal. Oz Post has no contract with the recipient of the package, you see. The contract to deliver, for which payment has been made, was with the sender.

You can't forcibly create a contract for which payment is demanded just by holding onto somebody's stuff and putting out your hand. Not unless you're going into competition with the mafia. It's not just an insane way to blow up what's left of your business and drive people to the private couriers. It's extortion. There are laws against it.


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and racist too...

 

Australia Post boasts it has a tolerant and diverse workplace and is "committed to continuing our legacy of providing real employment and careers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders".

But the federal government-owned business has allegedly taken months to deal with claims of racism in Northern NSW depot involving a senior employee reportedly telling an Aboriginal worker that "black people" should be "strung up and shot".

The dispute comes despite the corporation being heavily criticised in a Federal Court judgement last year for failing to act on racial complaints where a Sri Lankan worker was called "a black bastard".

In the latest incident, an Aboriginal staffer in NSW has alleged he was subjected to a long-running campaign of racial harassment which was ignored by management.

 

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-post-worker-allegedly-told-all-black-people-should-be-shot-20160428-gohlo5.html

brand bonus...

The multi-million dollar salaries of senior executives at Australia Post have been revealed by a Senate committee, with the committee dismissing claims the move would result in "unwarranted media attention" and "brand damage". 

Key points:
  • Managing director's total package worth $5.6m
  • Documents reveal another five executives earn $1.3m to $1.8m a year
  • Australia Post argued against revealing salaries

 

Committee chairman Senator James Paterson said documents published on Tuesday showed managing director Ahmed Fahour received a $4.4 million salary and a $1.2 million bonus last financial year, taking his total package to $5.6 million.

That salary is more than 10 times more than the $507,338 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is paid. 

The documents — which do not name Australia Post staff — reveal another five executives received between $1.3 million and $1.8 million a year and one claimed a $380,000 retirement benefit. 

The committee asked Australia Post to detail the salaries last year but the government-owned business agreed to do so in private only.

Australia Post wrote to Mr Paterson in January to claim there was no public interest justification for disclosing the salaries.

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-07/australia-post-senior-executive-sa...

 

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what is he going to do about it?....

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will call on Australia Post's board to reconsider the $5.6 million pay packet awarded to managing director Ahmed Fahour.

Key points:
  • Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Ahmed Fahour's salary too high
  • Labor's Doug Cameron says no value of $5 million in any individual at Australia Post
  • Australia Post only wanted to reveal salaries to Government in private

The multi-million dollar salaries of senior executives were revealed by a Senate committee on Tuesday, with the committee dismissing claims the move would result in "unwarranted media attention" and "brand damage".

Committee chairman Senator James Paterson said documents showed Mr Fahour received a $4.4 million salary and a $1.2 million bonus last financial year, taking his total package to $5.6 million.

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That salary is over 10 times more than the $522,000 Mr Turnbull is paid.

"I think that salary, that remuneration is too high," Mr Turnbull told reporters on Wednesday.

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/australia-post-ceo-ahmed-fahour-sa...

 

So what is our Donald Turnbull going to do about this? Would I say nothing? Or raise his own salary a bit more? Or what?...

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goner...

The chief executive of Australia Post, Ahmed Fahour, has quit after a dispute with the Turnbull government about his $5.6m remuneration package.

Sources told Guardian Australia that Fahour was told by the government this week that he could remain in his job if he agreed to cut his package from the current level of $5.6m – or if he refused, action would be taken against the Australia Post board.

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/23/australia-post-chief-ex...

 

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scomo should go...

Holgate saved Australia Post. This is a given. But it seems the powers in Kanbra, especially Morrison hated this. Her efforts were to be destroyed as a smoke screen to the Morrison's sports rorts (the Minister took the fall for Scomo), corrupt millions dollars land deal at the new Sydney Airport and many other CORRUPT, yes corrupt, political manipulations that could total more than several billion dollars, including the Robodebt fiasco, the present NDIS project on the drawing board to punish the disabled and all the sexiaries in Parliament House, plus many DUBIOUS characters such as Laming and co. propping up Scomo's MIRACULOUS government.

 

His intervention on the Australia Post to get rid of Christine Holgate was nothing more than ILLEGAL thuggery, from a man who has no respect for anyone else but himself.

 

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Christine Holgate was targeting the Australia Post chairman, Scott Morrison and the patriarchy

 

 

On the day the latest Guardian Essential poll confirmed that Scott Morrison’s approval rating had hit its lowest level for 12 months – with Australian women the primary source of the disaffection – Christine Holgate fronted a Senate committee clad in suffragette white.

“The simple truth is, I was bullied out of my job,” the former chief executive of Australia Post told her inquisitors on Tuesday in her percussive opening salvo.

 

“I was humiliated and driven to despair. I was thrown under the bus so the chairman of Australia Post could curry favour with his political masters. But I’m still here. And I’m stronger for surviving it.”

 

Readers will no doubt recall that Holgate was ritually sacrificed in full public view for sins against the pub test – in this case, the outlaying of $20,000 on Cartier watches in 2018 as a reward for four senior managers.

On Tuesday, Holgate had two primary targets: the Australia Post chairman, Lucio Di Bartolomeo, and Morrison. The patriarchy was also in the dock.

Was gender a factor in her brutish treatment? One of the senators wondered. “I think it would be fair to say I’ve never seen a media article comment about a male politician’s watch and yet I was depicted as a prostitute for making those comments, humiliated,” Holgate said. Gender was “partly” the issue, she thought.

 

But the underlying malady was “bullying and harassment and abuse of power” – words that have become a cultural anthem in the Age of Brittany.

Holgate made it clear she believed that Morrison was behind her departure. It was her evidence on Tuesday that Tony Nutt, a longtime Liberal party operative on the Australia Post board, had told her it was Morrison’s desire that she go.

This was hardly top secret information.

After Holgate’s politically inconvenient Cartiers had surfaced last October during a Senate Estimates hearing, Morrison said in question time later that day that Holgate, the high-flying chief of the Blackmores vitamin company who had joined Australia Post three years previously, had been instructed to step aside during an investigation.

“If she doesn’t wish to do that, she can go,” Morrison had bellowed.

It was Holgate’s evidence that rather than backing her in – rather than politely telling the prime minister just where to shove his reflexive populism and his hard-wired habit of defaulting to damage control above all other relevant factors – senior colleagues at Post then treated her like unexploded ordinance. And sent in the bomb disposal unit.

Holgate says she was hustled out of a job she was good at – an experience so humiliating, so scarifying, that she felt suicidal. “I was lying on the bathroom floor at this time in my life,” Holgate volunteered at one point during her evidence.

Tuesday was about exiting the ensuite and taking control of her own narrative. “This is the day when the chairman of Australia Post and all the other men involved in what happened to me will be held to account.”

We need to be clear that Holgate and Di Bartolomeo (who followed her giving evidence) provided conflicting accounts as Tuesday’s Senate show trial crawled over every inch of who had said what to whom and when.

The chairman insisted that Holgate had departed voluntarily. Holgate’s account was she was forced out unlawfully.

Holgate thought the prime minister wanted her out. Di Bartolomeo thought this didn’t amount to a direction from the government.

Holgate thought the chairman should go. The chairman thought he’d be staying.

Di Bartolomeo acknowledged that Holgate had been treated “abysmally” but he didn’t think Australia Post owed her an apology. The chairman said his view was Holgate was good at her job, which rather begged the question of why she no longer held it.

This particular conundrum brought us back, inevitably, to the watches and questions of judgment. The purchase of the watches “was an error of judgment made in good faith from an otherwise highly effective CEO”, the chairman said.

 

Given we’d arrived at errors of judgment, the primary judgment on trial on Tuesday was Morrison’s. The question Holgate posed implicitly during her carefully choreographed mic drop was: “Was it worth it?”

Was it worth it prime minister – bringing this corporate high flyer to my bathroom floor – just because I lacked a certain fluency in the unwritten rules of politics?

Did your punishment fit my crime? Was national humiliation a proportionate response for a chief executive drafted from the private sector to run a government business like a corporation, but not too much like a corporation, lest a prime minister be arbitrarily embarrassed?

Was it worth it, prime minister? Making an example of me just to avoid a few days of transient political discomfort before the outrage complex found its next mark?

Was it worth running the risk of me recovering from the setback and finding the requisite level of confidence to return fire just at the very moment when Australian women seem intent on charting the distance between the values you espouse and the grimly transactional conduct you routinely deliver? Was it worth it?

The answer to Holgate’s implicit question was simple. The answer was no.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/13/christine-holgate-was-targeting-the-australia-post-chairman-scott-morrison-and-the-patriarchy

 

 

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the best apology is for scomo to go...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being urged to apologise to former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate, who alleges she was "bullied" into leaving her position over the Cartier watches scandal.

Key points:
  • Christine Holgate left her role as Australia Post CEO after being criticised for rewarding staff with luxury watches
  • Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of bullying her in the wake of the scandal
  • The government says both sides of politics criticised Ms Holgate at the time 

Ms Holgate broke her silence yesterday, telling a Senate inquiry she was "humiliated" and pushed out of her job as chief executive officer unwillingly by the company's chair.

She also criticised Mr Morrison, who last year told Parliament he was "appalled" by the purchase of luxury watches for four senior executives, adding if Ms Holgate did not want to stand aside, "she can go".

"I think it's one of the worst acts of bullying I've ever witnessed," Ms Holgate told 7.30.

"I think you would have rather hoped that before somebody publicly hung you and humiliated you, that they may pick up the phone and call you and ask you directly: what happened?"

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chaired the Senate inquiry, said Mr Morrison should immediately apologise to Ms Holgate.

"He should pick up the phone today, call Christine Holgate, and say he was sorry," she said.

"He got too hot under the collar, he took a swing, and he needs to apologise."

Nationals senator Matt Canavan also argued Ms Holgate deserved an apology, although he did not specify from whom.

"I think Christine has given compelling evidence and it would be best for an apology to be given," he said.

 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/scott-morrison-urged-to-apologise-to-christine-holgate/100067404

 

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The best apology is for Scomo to go... piss off!

 

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go scomo go! out!

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The best of the year so far by Cathy Wilcox:

 

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