At the end of the day it's an Australian airline and that should mean as many Aussies as possible interacting with passengers. I still cringe a bit when I hear LHR based CSMs with strong northern pommie accents on the PA.
Your kidding aren't you.
There are more chinese, spanish, german etc cabin crew working out of Australian bases than I care to point a stick at.
Do a PVG or PEK and see how many Aussie sounding crew are on those.
What a stupid statement to make.
I for one will miss the Thai crew if this is true. They do raise the level of service in our airline in all our bases.