Exactly correct.

I had planned to get to to SYD in the evening, dinner, sleep, then pop into the office before getting the lunchtime JQ flight to OOL.

What I ended up doing was like a military experiment in sleep deprivation, followed by the hike from SYD T3 to T2, wait for 2 hours for JQ to bother staffing a desk, dump my bag, and then get refused entry to the SYD QP as I was on a JQ fright.

Infact, as an aside, I MUST have been sleep deprived, because I didn't notice that my hotel in OOL sneekily converted my Visa card slip into GBP at a rate of A$1.9=1GBP without asking me ... and I signed it! Curses...

The ticketing issue at BME was interesting... they have no ticket office there, and the service desk told me that all ticketing must be done via 131313. However 131313 told me that if there were any rerouting issues it must be dealt with by the airport staff. I reached deadlock on that one, with no give at all on either side. Interestingly 131313 did tell me that in any case JQ was a totally different company to QF, so if I missed the JQ flight, tough, I qould have to take it up with JQ, not QF.