Hawkeye,
Every other shift worker is Australia does not, repeat NOT, receive overtime after 8 hours duty.
I am a Paramedic and work 48 hours in 4 consecutive shifts , the last 2 of which are 14 hour night shifts (1700 to 0700 hours) There is no guarantee of any rest during the 14 hours. Note the 10 hour break between these shifts is reducible to 8 with late finishes. ( for which we do get 1 and a half times normal hourly rate) We then have 3 full days off. Our dayshifts are 10 hours.
I still don't earn what I did in my last years as Cabin Crew - and work a lot more hours after 3 years at uni.
The benefit is that I now feel I am doing something useful.
Head out of the sand and kindly refrain from making such statements before checking facts first.