Awards are argued out in the Industrial Relations Commission between the employer and employee representatives. The parties can agree on an amount or the commission can impose an amount. It becomes a minimum for payment.
Virtually every pilot, with the ink still wet on his / her CPL, is willing to 'break into' employment by prostituting themselfs for peanuts. A little while later when they are 'in the industry' and mum and dad don't feed them anymore, they want 'proper' wages. They are then anoyed when others undercut them to get in. Oh such short memories.
The only way we will ever get decent wages will be when NO ONE is willing to work for less from the beginning. I am now paying wages and I'm paying award wages. Some of my competitors pay 1/2 and some instructors work for free. Is that a level playing field? The employer is 'using' the pilot and the pilot is 'using' the employer. And eventually we all go down the gurgler.
Wake up, don't work for under the award.