"We would never allow under an enterprise agreement in Australia to have bonding for cabin crew, but they're allowed to do that overseas and we think that is unacceptable," she said.
Uhhh..... actually there are cabin crew working in Australia who are (or were) bonded. Perhaps it's not under an EBA which is why she can say that?
But apparently it's okay for pilots?
I have no problem with crew being made to pay back if they leave before probationary period for reasons other than death in the family or something equally as serious. So many of the 'kids' being employed these days are scared of hard work and run off after a month or two. Not helping the problems of any airline. Waste of money, especialyl when you add up how much it actually costs to do the training, it's nowhere in the league of flight crew but it's certainly not cheap either.
If they're concerned about duty hours going above 15 or even up to 20, there's plenty of other airlines flying into to Oz they should be looking at as well...