DIY fundamentalism: Lie back and think of your country

George Christensen and Pauline Hanson.
George Christensen and Pauline Hanson. David Rowe

In which country are chief executive officers expected to confess carnal thoughts about their secretary to the company board, and - if they are non-white and Muslim - declare their loyalty to their country?

And if you guessed Trump's America, you'd be wrong. Welcome to Australia, mate.

A day after QBE chief executive John Neal was docked half a million dollars in pay for not confessing his relationship with his executive assistant, outgoing Australia Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour earned at least a slice of his $5.6 million salary facing a Spanish inquisition - sorry, parliamentary inquiry - about his controversial remuneration package.

The former fish and chip shop owner who bravely led the outrage against Fahour - suggesting he was a Muslim fundamentalist who denigrates women - was nowhere to be seen, nor were any of her One Nation senators.

Hmm, if we're talking fundamentalism, we might need to look at bit closer to home.

Fahour, in his last appearance as CEO at a parliamentary estimates hearing on Tuesday, was asked whether he believed his ethnicity or faith played a role in the controversy over his mega-pay deal.

"This is obviously a very difficult conversation Senator," Mr Fahour said.

"I felt really sad for the senator that she would descend to that level of commentary. I felt that it was very ill-informed. I also felt that it was very hurtful to my wife who's English-Irish and went to a Catholic school and my four beautiful children."

"We love our country. I love my country so much. So I feel sorry for Senator Hanson."

While Fahour was answering unspoken questions about his patriotism in a Senate committee room, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attempted to bolster his 'Strayan fair dinkum credentials in Question Time.

"Let me answer this question in a very practical member that the honorable member as a former organiser for the shoppo's union will understand very well," Turnbull said.

This is very suspicious. All real Australians know it's shoppies' union, where you and your tradies have a bickie on your smoko. Get that wrong and you'll get in biffo, you drongo.

Fahour is not the only recent high-profile departure.

Queensland Nationals member George Christensen will hang up his Whip on Thursday.

Refreshingly it was not to "spend more time with his family" which in politics is euphemism for being caught neck-deep in a steaming hot mess.

This is a main who knows thyself.

He's previously joked privately he's "too fat and too right wing" to be a minister and in statement on Tuesday he realised his "continued outspokenness" made him too outspokennessy to be a party Whip as well.

No one pushed him but Christensen "did feel some of my colleagues may have been aggrieved that the enforcer of discipline was being somewhat ill-disciplined himself".