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Australia Post's worst nightmare: Christine Holgate to head delivery rival Global Express

  • Written by Paul Alexander, Adjunct Reseach Fellow (Supply Chains), Curtin University
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“This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.”

That line – from the satirical British current affairs television program BrassEye – could easily be reverberating through federal government offices this week.

Yesterday the news dropped that Christine Holgate, the Australia Post chief executive...

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