To simply assume, "That's the way that it's done in the USA", is complete and utter rubbish.
Fly by night operators, or those that can only attract marginally qualified candidates are the only ones that still do it.
I can supply accident reports and even a training accident involving an Embraer jet split in two following a "hard" landing in Texas!! All of these involving poorly qualified types at the controls in pay-for-training operating environments.
The fact that PFT is diminishing in the USA and that hull losses are now at their minimum should tell you something.
This is not in the interests of securing a safe airspace in the Australian environment. This is oportunism run rampant, at the expense of safety.
If you want a four page report sent to Steve Creedy, to be published in The Australian, citing NTSB sources and airline Chief Pilots...it can be done!!