There is a term you serving RAAF types may be unfamilar with. It's 'professional mobility'. Never existed previously to the extent it does to day. Professional mobility enables type endorsed, high time and experienced pilots to circumvent traditional boundaries of seniority in airlines.
So, a RAAF A330 pilot could have access immediatly to 15-20K packages a month, in the civilian world. A current RAAF F18 or P3 driver say (or future C17 pilots) will not have this professional mobility. It will take him - if lucky - a decade to access this level of experience. Possibly never, if joining traditional, seniority based legacy airlines such as QF.
Two year ROSO equals 1000 widebody command ours. Nice. And Defence doesn't realise it yet! Could someone else join the line up of Defence bueracrats, sitting around with nothing better to do than burning $100 bills, at taxpayers' expense.
Captain Sand Dune
Let's hope the corporate culture sound enough to realise asymetric flying in a 330 can be ably demonstrated in a simulator. And further, lets also hope that the RAAF doesn't use the QF A330 operation as a source of Airbus wisdom.