One thing they are concerned about is that Australians have this name of wanting to go back home as soon as a new company kicks off in Australia!
There are quit a few ex ansett blokes here ( a lot!) and when you ask most of them: " what would you do if SIA kicks off the new ansett airline?" most of them will say : I am out of here!
I think QR is trying to limit this risk by not hiring any more ex ansett blokes right now because otherwise they risk on loosing too many pilots at the same time....
As a mather of fact I think they are trying to avoid having to large numberes of pilots with the same nationality in general for those reasons...
I can understand that as well.....
Anyway, good luck in finding a job EP......pretty soon we will all be flying again!