Spot on Timeee.
There are plenty of Aussies working for airlines overseas who would trade in the apparent high pay to return home in an instant. Life-style has a high premium.
The other thing that you find out o/s is that there is quite often no way of enforcing your legal rights, consequently pay and conditions can be changed at management's whim.
If anyone needs evidence, have a look at what is being said about EK on the Middle East forums. (And EK used to be the Holy Grail.