Captain Manning said the industry needed to put pressure on airlines and governments to find a solution.
How about encouraging the more than qualified expats to return to Australia?
a graduate of the flight school that if they get a job that they'll be on $40K or more (as most engineers are when they graduate from uni) then we're going to continue to see young people disengage from aviation as a career choice.
A graduate who enters mining which would have similar work hours to a pilot who be on probably double that!! A $40k graduate would be a 9-5 gig!!