It depends - from a comany point of view No. The only flying was a few day patterns and Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta which were returns. Most permanent crew were not even able to build their roster to 121 hours the average was something like 80-90 hours therefore making the base unproductive in the eyes of the company. Some crew liked the low hours others didnt, some crew were doing singapore day in day out.
Hoewever since carmen was introduced the base has become far more productive and the range of flying is excellent from a crew prespective enabling crew to build their hours and achieve additional days off through IPD's etc and the FWA system works better as there are more casuals available to do the flying that is released.
Traditionally Perth is a base that MAM are sent to and more recently the regionals who are generally all from the east coast thus the reason why a large percentage of the base is on the transfer list and this pattern will continue whilever the company continues to send MAM's and regionals from the east to the west. The only way to resolve the transfer issue out of Perth is to recruit locally I suppose.