If QANTAS participated in this article, the person involved should be sacked.
If conditions were such that the pilots needed to be "heroes" to land, they had no business putting their passengers at risk by trying the approach. From Bindook, it doesn't take much more fuel to go to CBR or WLM that SYD, and if they held for an hour, they could have bugged out early to BNE or MEL, so it's not like they didn't have choices.
More likely it was just a bit turbulent, the crew did a good and safe job while the ride was a bit uncomfortable, and they put it on the deck in "challenging" winds, and a no-nothing SLF reported it inaccurately.
The outrageous bit is QF seemingly getting on board with it- where did the Captains picture come from?