Omark,
A bit of background info may make it easier to understand the comments.
Maybe a year ago a qf 737 crew got in strife after doing a go around (I think cause was the runway at Brisbane was still occupied) and a self serving politician made a huge song and dance about it through the media. For a while everytime a rivet popped it was front page stuff.
I think the general consensus was to leave the pilot stuff to us and no, we aren't going to have our every decision subject to media and pilotical scrutiny.
A lot of airline people obviously feel that the pax in australia have gotten very comfortable with air travel and have forgotten about the potential risks associated with travelling through a (way)sub zero enviroment at 1000 km/hr in a metal tube.