I have a lot of sympathy for VA mates who are ex-Ansett and already been through this once and are now facing unemployment again.
Same with the newer lot who joined an established airline and thought they had a career for as long as they wanted it.
But the ones who were there with Branson in 2000 and 2001, be they pilot or ground staff, laughing and cheering and screaming at the imminent collapse of Ansett and the thousands of job losses get no sympathy whatsoever. You frothed at the opportunity to further your own cause at the expense of people who'd been working in a 65yo airline and now it looks like happening to you.
That niggly pain you're feeling is karma biting you squarely on the arse. Learn from it.