The Australian media and politicians also scrutinise Qantas very closely and make it headline front-page news.
British Airways suffered the same collapse in service, after similarly firing most of their workforce and outsourcing or hiring them back on lower wages. Sadly the British just accept this as the "new normal" post-Brexit and post-pandemic and it rarely makes the news - rolling cancellations, lost luggage, useless call centres, or even being stranded by the airline and unable to contact them is no longer an unusual event worth mentioning. Even quite serious issues were barely reported on, such as newly trained cabin crew repeatedly deploying the emergency exit slides by mistake on their first flights.