Advice
Not telling you who I am, you can draw your own conclusions on that score, just here to offer some friendly advice.
They offer you a position, MAM, permanent or otherwise, take it. Once you are in the system you have an advantage over those on the outside looking in.
QF want LOCALS for the PER base, it fits with the expectations of their corporate customers, without which the PER short haul base would not exist. Managements experience with opening the PER long haul base and recruiting people on the east coast for PER only to see them leave the minute they got their transfer back home was also an administrative headache.
The QF short haul base currently operates with east coast CSM's. This will change in the near future and those local crew who are appointed to those positions will be backfilled by MAM casuals!
To recap. They offer you a position, take it. Don't think you are going to remain on some QF shortlist for permanent employment straight off the street. The smart money knows it just aint going to happen.