The old Australian "She's right mate attitude" was the quoted major problem evident in 9 out of 10 Airline applicants by the Chief Pilot of Australia's largest Airline in a personal interview with myself.
The Chief Pilot at this airline doesn't even sit on the interview panel. He takes feedback from the line pilots who are on the panel, who in my opinion, are not qualified to be asking the behavioural type questions that they do, (unless of course they have some sort of formal qualification in the Human Resources area) which most do not.
My suggestions to this Chief Pilot are-
You can't avoid the attitude you are concerned about here as it's very prevalent in Australian society, so what can you do? Make sure you have the appropriate processes in place within the airline to identify and rectify if it's required.
Now, no doubt my suggestion here will fall on deaf ears as i'm sure they already have this stuff worked out
,which begs the question, why is this CP talking too you about this stuff anyway Aeromentor?