This discussion has drawn out a few extremes, but clearly the outsiders do not really understand the majority of writers here who are somewhat disillusioned. The rousing company address by the self procalimed non-sycophant is transparent to us here as an amusing tactic and there is no truth to the rumour that it is an attempt to revive a teaching career so do not take it seriously.
The personnel who have been here for more than about six years have seen a good package slide downhill not only by the constant nibbling away by our faceless bureaucrats, but also factors outside RBA's control such as exchange rates. For example the SGD/BND buys around 25% less of the Australian or NZ dollar now than it did six months ago. That is a significant cut for the staff from those parts who have their financial ventures in those countries. While the package viewed as it is from outside may seem good to those looking in, long term staff here are working harder for about two thirds of what they were getting a year ago and probably effectively half of that five years ago.
In general, the future of RBA is Airbus it would seem. A319s in a month, a couple more A320s later this year and A340-500s mid next year. There is still a need for a few crews on the 767, but some of them are going to become surplus sometime next year as the Airbuses come on line. Direct entry crews will probably be used and preferred by the company as they will not have lived through the past [better] times so next year will see some upheaval and probable arbitrary termination of contracts of Boeing crew. RBA has done this before without hesitation where they thought necessary and make no bones of the fact that expats are contract staff and here only as required.
I hope I'm wrong about some of these theories but there is no input from our management other than rumours so thats all there is to go on.