I think people need to accept the change thats happening in Australia.
Good luck to all the kids about to embark on a career in aviation in Australia. Its going to be much easier to get to where you wanna go compared to 5 or 10 years ago.
People are always going to bitch and whine becauses they had to endure the hard yards when they are now seeing that kids coming into aviation are going to get an 'easy run'.
Just wake up to the times. Australia has always been one of the hardest places in the world to establish a successful aviation career, times have changed though...........
As for low-time pilots filling the seats of bigger and bigger aircraft, we all know that Europe has been doing that for quite some time now, with success. Given the right degree of training theres no reason why it cant work here in oz. Just finding the people to train guys is the problem