EYTRUTH - Qantas is made up of lots of small companies that make up the cabin crew, these include australian airlines and jetconnect.
The australian airlines and jetconnect crews dont enjoy the same conditions that Qantas mainline fulltimers do. We dont even get the same staff travel. Then there are the MAM casuals who dont get any staff travel at all. Duty hour limitations are different as are rest periods. And so on.. I mean hey! some of us cant even be based in aus to fly full time on Qantas aircraft.
If your friends are full time Aus based, then im afraid the days of anyone else getting employed under those conditions are over, if they are UK based then they are on a completely different contract again which doesnt compare with AOs or Jetconnects.