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While you've got the chopping block out ScoMo -

Perhaps a significant moment in time? Could this be the beginning of the end of (what Sandy would say) the wretchedly failed model of the GBE (Government Business Enterprise)??? 

Via Parlview and Hansard, from the 22/10/20 HofR QT:

Mr MORRISON (Cook—Prime Minister and Minister for the Public Service) (14:40): The accusation that the Leader of the Opposition just levelled against the government is false. Earlier today, when this was brought to my attention by the report of Senate estimates, I was appalled. It's disgraceful and it's not on. And so immediately I spoke with the shareholding minister, the Minister for Finance, and the minister responsible, the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, and from those discussions the following actions ensued: that there had to be an independent investigation done by the department, not by Australia Post; that the chief executive should stand aside immediately; and that the independent investigation should look into the conduct of the board members and their governance as well as the actions of the management and the executive. That report will come back to me and the members of my cabinet, and if there are issues to be addressed with board members then they will be addressed then.

This all happened within an hour. So appalled and shocked was I by that behaviour—any shareholder would in a company raise their outrage if they had seen that conduct by a chief executive, a management or a board; they would insist rightly on the same thing. Now, we are the shareholders of Australia Post on behalf of the Australian people, so that action was immediate. The chief executive has been instructed to stand aside and, if she doesn't wish to do that, she can go.

Here's a 9 news video segment which summarises how the ScoMo answer to the Albo QWN came about...

 
 
I also liked Sky News Andrew Bolt's take on this...  

Public service has turned from ‘serving public to serving yourself’: Bolt
22/10/2020|4min


Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the idea of public service has turned from “serving the public to serving themselves” amid news Australia Post spend $12,000 on luxury watches as a reward for employees who secured lucrative banking deals.

Australia Post Chief Executive Christine Holgate defended the purchases, saying tax-payer funds were not used, claiming as far as she could recall four people received a Cartier watch valued at about $3,000 each.

“I have watched in amazement as Australia Post has turned into what sometimes seems like a golden trough for some lucky little piggies,” Mr Bolt said.

“If you won’t do a decent job for the public for your decent wage and you need to bribed with a Cartier watch to put in the effort, you are not a public servant, you are a public leech.”

 
So ScoMo, while you've got the Butcher's knife out. how about cutting the throats of a few more piggies gorging from the 'Golden GBE Trough'...



MTF...P2