LS I also remember an Australian Prime Minister making the rather grand policy statement that no Australian child will be living in poverty by 1990. Often the PPS has no hope of succeeding because of the magnitude of the problem. The basic fact is if there is a requirement for a lot of pilots then it doesn't matter what the publicly proclaimed policy statement is. If the majority of pilots are SWM then the airlines will select them. If your definition of a traditional flight deck is a Captain, First Officer and Second Officer(s) then that is not going to change. If your definition of a traditional flight deck is everyone is homogeneous and talks like they're at an outback pub then yes your traditional flight deck is disappearing. Fleeing to the Middle East China or the US won't change that either, its not just Qantas making policy statements about quotas and diversity.