Thankyou tinpis, a very helpful and informative reply, especially from a person who is form the land of rivers of grog...
Bare foot flyer, with the way pilot recruiting is in Australia at the moment those sort of hours may well be enough to get you a start with some of the major players in Darwin. I can only suggest you start with Australasian Jet or Hardy's. And before my response is torn apart, there may be errors in my spelling and grammar but i never wanted to be an english teacher anyway!