There are about 1000 experienced airline pilots out of work from the demise of Ansett and associated regionals. The whole employment scence here is totaly dead. Check out the Dunnunda forum. Esp. the staffcv thread. Most of the pilots that QF are interviewing are ex-AN. Even then, only those with University Quals.are getting an invitation to stage one and two testing. The GA drivers are really p!ssed off. Many here are looking at going to Europe.