RWS, from reading your reply it would appear you are missing many important pieces of information:
CAR206 defines fare paying passengers, assuming you are talking about RPT, fixed terminals, fixed routes, fixed times blah blah blah.
I dropped Parachutes todays, so you are again incorrect.
Parachuting in an extreme sport, chartering an aeroplane to go sight seeing or flying Virgin to Brisbane is not.(
http://www.skydivecairns.com.au/aircraft.htm )
I am paid very fairly by this operator, well above the award, why because i have a backbone, i negotiated a fair deal at the beginning ( do not undercut others and will not work for crap wages, which you obviously do and have done ).
Things do need to be changed, the only way this is bound to happen is by people not doing what you appear to have done, fly over weight with defects etc etc for crap money by under cutting other pilots for the work.
You have no right to be spouting wisdom, you are being judged by your actions.