I'd be interested to know the 'source' of the recruitment rumour.
QF have just cancelled all L/H & S/H promotions due to an excess of crew and not enough people taking redundancies.
If no-one goes 'up' and they are still overstaffed: why would they recruit?
Crew are being forced to take their annual leave, long service leave is being assigned, part-time and Leave Without Pay are being allocated to virtually anyone that asks...
Doesn't seem like a prime time to be recruiting to me!