Be careful what you believe in news reports.
GA Driver, whilst QF may have put on hold things for the time being with respect to crew (and there has been nothing announced that I'm aware of that suggests there has been but logic may suggest that), I wouldn't believe what reports like the one you quoted about tech crew too often. More often than not they are targeted at 'other' areas of the company where you have to take someone from a different department before you can take a newbie off the street. Saves on redundancies and so on. Obviously, this doesn't work real well with techies as it is pretty difficult to find a groundie with the appropriate experience to transfer across.
Things aren't flash at the moment. They will improve. As one particularlly famous QF 767 driver says..........'Stick with it'.