Professor:
Qantas front line staff ARE INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE and have been for decades.
You will always find weird contractual exceptions, but they exist in every airline because of the complexity of rostering vs legal requirements.
No Qantas staff member (except the very top end) believes that Qf is in the business of providing jobs, but the impost of your comment is that Qf staff are not competitive, and that is absolute drivel and simply a regurgitation of spin from corporate liars.
And I say that as an employer in my non-Qantas life. Your comments are absolutely spot on in relation to my employees ($60 per hour with a skill set of being able to spread Flora on a piece of bread just one example) but show a stunning lack of understanding of what Qantas staff actually do in relation to their peers overseas.