1. Thread drift is not previously unknown on PPRuNe.
2. If a reduction in Australian maintenance capacity is somehow not relevant to redundancies, then for what other reason are there redundancies? Do tell us, J-A-1. Or maybe you need to put in an appropriate smilie to let us dumb pilots know you are really being sarcastic. e.g.
AJ and the executive coterie are the only people who spruik the lack of connection between a decline in capacity and a need to reduce the workforce. To everyone else, it appears self evident.