I have to disagree that the regulator needs to take a big stick to QF.
In Singapore everyone seems scared of the regulator despite a pretty good safety record. A lot of things which are mindless in detail (filling in the flight plans with altitudes every hour as an example) are driven by a fear of regulator audits.
The Qantas Jet would not have been able to pressurise with a gaping hole in it and it would not have made Frankfurt at 10000ft. There is no safety issue given the result and what the crew would have known at the time.
Lets not turn Australia into a police aviation state. We have the best safety record in the world. Indonesia has not one conviction against airlines - so I could then relate to such an argument.