Christine Holgate

It's in the Australia Post Act that they have to maintain by law 4,000 post offices.

When Paul Graham took over from Christine Holgate in 2021, there were 4,330 post offices.

In that hearing that you see the picture there, two weeks ago, he revealed there was 4,082.

That means he's closed 250 post offices since he took over in 2021.

Every time, every time, every time a big transport concern gets acquired by a private equity company, what happens? They wrote it that they stripped the money out of it.

And you know, that's that's it it that comes to it Comes to a screamer halt Christine Holgate former Australia post CEO Yoshi of the watch gift sort of thing It's been in charge of the operations of the large multimodal network of trucks rail and related service across Australia New Zealand totally employs more than a thousand people, you know, I

Yeah, they're a big operation.

They've got depots and agency sites in a lot of places.

How do you navigate your archive, by the way? Because there's so much stuff there on your YouTube channel.

But if people are studious enough, they go through your archive, they will find videos of you and me in 2021 talking about the story of Christine Holgate saving post offices by doing a deal with the banks, sort of forcing the banks to do a deal that finally made them pay properly for the bank at post service.

And that saved post offices.

And Christine Holgate was motivated to do that by the number of communities that relied on Bank at Post alone to do their banking.

Australia Post management was complaining about the, or the board was complaining about the cost of the Bank at Post service.

It was costing Australia Post $50 million a year.

They wanted to shut it down.

Christine Holgate said, you can't shut it down.