How about you, LL? Have you ever made a mistake that could have resulted in a bad outcome, but luckily didn’t? (I've made plenty.)
How would you like to be treated by other pilots, the ATSB and CASA if your mistake had instead resulted in a bad outcome?
As has been pointed out, if there'd been a lucky break in the weather during one of the attempted approaches, no one - other than the crew - would have known what a close run thing it was. No lucky break in the weather and there's a different outcome, even though exactly the same systemic problems and poor decision-making lead to either outcome.
If there had been a lucky break in the weather the crew should have been able to report the near miss to the ATSB and expect the ATSB to do an objective analysis of, among other things, the systemic issues that led to the 'near miss', and expect CASA not to punish them for any poor decision-making.
Instead we got an attempted quick and dirty cover up and pilot scapegoating, and the consequent trashing of the ATSB's already-dwindling reputation. My "learning" from this episode is never to volunteer anything to ATSB. What a great outcome for aviation safety.