QF Skywalker - This may be a good thing for Sunstate crew if you are folded into 1 airline and that being Eastern as you will not be going to Eastern but directly to Qantas.
As you know when Southern was folded into Eastern the FAAA pulled out an old document from their hat which stated something along the lines of an airline being disolved you get direct entry to mainline thus without senority.
Therefore if you are absorbed into Eastern you will not be going just like Southern crew.
However - what they state in the article has been happening for some 12 months now with the regionals and you will find that all accounting, administration etc is now centralised under 1 roof already for Eastern and Sunstate. Furthermore after what QF were forced to do with Southern flight attendants it was decided to maintain Flight Attendants under their respective companies and EBA's just centralise all other administrative operations.
But you never know what Qantas has up its sleeve. But if they try to employ you regional guys under anything other than your respective airlines you will join Qantas in the same way Southern crew did.