Management
Have read with interest the comments regarding management tactics toward FA's and suggest that you all pay them too much attention. Don't tell them anything, don't trust any of them, don't ever believe that if you do them a favour that they will reciprocate.
You need to change your tactics, and you can start by complaining about THEM. Expose all their excesses, to the newspapers, CASA, the FAAA, the Government and opposition parties, federal and state. If anyone in QF management looks at you sideways lodge a complaint to their supervisor and stick by your guns. Management, for far too long have been getting away with all sorts of abuse against FA's and it's only going to stop if you all stick together and show them that you have all had enough of the mistreatment.
Like them or loathe them the FAAA is all you have and if they spend any amount of time "fighting" in-house matters, the less time they have to concentrate on matters that concern all FA's. Leave the politics to the ballot box. Your common enemy is QF management and apathy. Get involved and take the mongrels on. Rats in the ranks and quislings are nothing new, you must know who they are and be able to convince them to change their tune.
Co-operation with any of the industrial groups within Qantas has never been a priority with management so don't even try and in the present climate "pre-emptive" attacks are your best defence collectively. On an individual basis, there are remedies in common law to protect you from abuse, threats, intimidation and harassment from any person. Look them up and use them because the longer you allow management to get away with the abuse the longer they will continue to treat you like animals.
It's all up to you, collectively and individually.