2 years ago I was flying business DPS-PER on Virgin. One of the pilots spent the bulk of the cruise flight chatting up the outrageously hot hostie (who wouldn't), eating snacks in front of PAX from the galley, and basically not doing his job which was to fly the aeroplane. I wrote a letter to VA to draw this to their attention, stating that he was so long doing this that I should have filmed it for them. VA replied that it was ok for the crew to leave the cockpit for any amount of time and that it would be an offense for me to film them doing so. WELL DONE VIRGIN -- I still have your letter in my email. NOW DO YOU GET MY POINT ?????? We have 2 drivers for when the sh it hits the fan and they cant fix it if they aint there !!!
So yes it coulda woulda happened in Australia because the airlines don't really care about safety until they are made to do so.