In RYR we use the control column before T/O checklist and it certainly includes flaps, and is very explicitly phrased/ checked in our response to the F/O's challenge "flaps". Don't know how you guys are doing it down under. I have always found the only sure-fire way not to forget it, and avoid not being able to give a satisfactory reply, is to ALWAYS call for the flap required as soon as taxi-ing is commenced, the only exception being winter-ops with considerable taxi-way contamination.Even at my advanced years this works for me, and if I don't do this, due to some distraction at exactly the wrong moment, yes , more often than not I forget , and am saved by the checklist, or the bright young chap/ chapess alongside me.