Holgate reveals new job at rival

EX-AUSTRALIA Post boss Christine Holgate has taken the top job at one of her former company’s major rivals.

Ms Holgate’s new position as CEO of delivery company Toll Global Express was announced on Monday morning.

Ms Holgate resigned from Australia Post last year after it was revealed she gifted Cartier watches totalling $20,000 to executive staff. She said she is currently in mediation with Australia Post about her controversial departure, but would not discuss details.

“(The mediation process) is still ongoing and I need to respect that if it is okay and let it run the course,” she told 2GB.

Earlier on Monday morning, she told Channel 9 it was easy to take the new job.

“It was a big decision you know, but its not a hard decision,” she said.

“It is doing something I absolutely love which is growing a business.”

Ms Holgate (pictured) quit as Australia Post CEO after revelations senior executives were given expensive Cartier watches, but has since been cleared of misleading or misusing taxpayer funds.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison in October declared the gifts “disgraceful” and said Ms Holgate had been instructed to stand aside.

Ms Holgate said she did not know why the PM made that intervention, but said it made her position untenable.

“I was pulled out of my job. I was humiliated and driven to despair. I was thrown under the bus … but I’m still here,” she said last month.

Ms Holgate came to Australia Post after a successful nine-year stint at vitamins company Blackmores, where she oversaw a ten-fold increase in share price to above $200.