One would hope that we might hear something in the way of a press statement on this matter from ALL the (too?) many unions that represent pilots in Australia.
Unfortunately, as has been mentioned already in another thread, the precedent seems to have already been set - VOz would appear to have selected a non national, non-777 rated Chief Pilot (or was it Chief of Training?) over an Australian who is currrent on type and who also has significent check and training experience on type - like more than ten years' worth.
One can only assume that if non-nationals are willing to pay for their endorsements and work for a lesser wage than Australians are, in these current times of economic rationalism, they'll get the jobs over Australains who are not quite so willing.
Students of Australian history would be able to draw some disturbing parallels to events in the 1890s and the establishment of the now much derided White Australia Policy. What many of today's Politically Correct seem too ready to gloss over when they talk about the travesties of the W.A.P. is that it was as much about protecting wages for Australians as about race. It was just that back then, the people willing to come to Australia and work for lower wages were predomininatly Chinese, whereas today, that's not nesessarily the case.