Actually NO.
An extremely high hourly rate that combines to make take home pay higher than those of their full-time counterparts at Virgin blue, Eastern & Sunstate.
Yes it's not guaranteed hours, but not really hardly done by, sspecially when the hourly rate includes grooming allowance and others to make up for the fact that employment is casual.
Many Eastern/Sunstate crew have traditonally had second jobs just to pay the bills after flying 4-5 sectors in one day on their own for little thanks on old turbo prop aircraft, just waiting for the day QF calls them for CP.
MAM have had it easy.