"Seems it may not have been outsourced at all - post on the D&G forum suggests it was local."
Reportedly it was the last aircraft to have gone through major maintainance in Sydney... Why am I not surprised... The people doing the work were probably about to lose their jobs (and they knew it). Their focus probably lay elsewhere.
The decay continues...
Rgds.
NSEU (former "expert".. now "jack of all trades.. master of none")