Flyboy2101,
I heard he hit the bird on arrival at his destination, bent the nose gear, didnt tell anyone or get engineers advise, then got pax and flew back with some nose gear retraction problems and the chance of the gear failing on arrival, then lying on the ATSB report, saying the birdstrike occurred when arriving in darwin... so a little difference in facts!
btw i dont work for ausjet, so can't confirm any of the above.