Plus one for vee tail and airdualbleedfault's comments. The outgoing CP seemed more interested in their resume than making a difference.
No time on type is not a requirement that casa has specified in their CP requirements. However, if a manager of flight ops is to receive any respect from staff it would help if they spent at least one day being a pilot. Only completing half of the line training is a joke. How can you understand the areas requiring improvement without spending time out there? How many CP/fleet captains ect in other Qantas group airlines have not actually operated a revenue flight in their companies I wonder?
What people may not know is that Network have rarely promoted to management from within the pilot ranks. Not in recent years anyway. New faces are the norm.
The new fellow I'm sure is an upstanding member of the community, however time will tell if anything meaningful will result from the change.