The amount of CPL graduates vs amount of jobs
The following is most definitely preaching to the choir but since moving up north I've developed a very strong conviction on VET Student Loans I feel like sharing.
Over 1,000 CPL graduates in the 19-20 financial year. Only a handful of jobs up north every year. And yet flight schools keep pushing people to sign up for their courses and people in the cities still recommend signing up to complete your CPL now under the slogan of "get it in the lull so you're ready when it all rebounds". As someone who is up north looking for a job right now, it is honestly disgusting and as predatory as a used car yard.
The vast majority of those 1,000 CPL graduates will never even move up north and stay in the city with their old job because they can't commit (they have family, don't have the money etc) to a move up here. Or they set up a fancy LinkedIn hoping Qantas will pick them up?? This can't have ever been a problem when VSL didn't fund a whole CPL. If you were about to drop $50k on your CPL you would have been well aware of the requirement to move up north and would have been motivated to do it.