I'm sure that's all true from a maintenance manual point of view. And I can't speak for QF flight-crew procedures, but a few airlines (ours included) have for some time delegated bird strike inspections to the flight-crew (in the first instance).
Should they not find anything, then off they go. It doesn't state anything in our ops manual about replicating the configuration at time of the strike.
Being Townsville, I wouldn't be surprised if engineering coverage there has gone the way of most outstations - not available except by phone.
If true, then the crew probably did exactly as they were meant to.
Probably a different matter if it had occurred in MEL/SYD/BNE or any number of other main ports, where engineers are in abundance
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