How good would the conditions in WA Mining be under AWA's if there was a surplus of mining engineers, and mining workers for the last 20 years, all out to undercut each other, and take the piss out of each other at every opportunity??
Good point but people generally only get into mining
because of the money. If a guy could live in Perth and earn the same money as he did on the mine noone would go and work in the mining sector. So AWA or no AWA mine workers will always be paid well as people won't go and work for peanuts.
In aviation everyone is so desperate to climb the greasy pole of endorsements they will happily screw over all and sundry just to get a jet job. That is the real issue in aviation. Australian pilots are becoming some of the lowest paid aviators in the world, and this happened before AWAs.