DCT No Speed,
The last thing we want is controllers coming here who advertise themselves as 'cheap'.
It's hard enough trying to keep our salaries up just with inflation without having to fight a race to the bottom attitude.
But we do need people who can do the job well and expect to be paid properly, wherever they come from.
However:
On that salary living in Brisbane you could easily afford a house and send your kids to private school.
I don't agree. Any reasonably sized family house in an area close enough to work is going to start around 500-600K these days.
Beaches? Not in Brisbane I am sorry. Melbourne and Brisbane are the main centres - both are very different cities, and equally appealing but for different reasons.