QANTAS flight, not an Australian pilot
Max,
A QF-labelled flight in a 737 series aircraft between Australia and NZ is almost certainly going to be "QANTAS operated by JetConnect", in a ZK-registered aircarft with Kiwi flight crew and Kiwi cabin crew paid Kiwi wages - up to 40% lower than Australian ones. The aircraft has the QANTAS kangaroo, the big writing on the fuselage is "QANTAS", and the crew uniforms are identical to QANTAS ones. JetConnect is a shell company 100% owned by QANTAS, it doesn't even have NZ bank accounts, the crew are paid from the QANTAS bank account in Australia (in NZ dollars, of course). QANTAS management are so impressed with the "success" of this concept that they are planning to do the same with a Singapore-based subsidiary. 
Perhaps now you can begin to understand why the QANTAS pilots are getting so grumpy?
No, I'm not a pilot, just SLF - Kiwi SLF at that, but JetConnect stinks from the ethical point of view. Not that QANTAS' management would recognise that as a consideration.