Hempy, the reason there are so many Oz expat controllers is that we all got sick of the complete mismanagement of ASA, and the constant penny pinching. The EBA "negotiations" where they would give a 3% "increase" in return for removing conditions that had been fought for and won in the past. Splitting of the workforce to the point where we were all on different scales and as a result different salaries for doing the same job with similair experience levels. Not filling call outs because the minimum staffing requirements were only "guidelines".
They spent $300,000 training us, we passed and we returned a minimum of 5 years of service. We have moved on and have continued to be trained in all sorts of airspace the world over. We have all gained experience be it Centre supervisor, Incident investigation, Ab Initio Course instruction, Radar System Adaptation and so on.
Now if the decision makers in ASA don't want to get a further return on that $300,000 they spent and the other hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on us since then they can keep their heads buried in the sand. But if they do, all they need to do is contact us with a realistic offer recognising our experience and knowledge, and we will consider the offer carefully. It just makes no sense to me that anyone would say that they don't want to take people back because they have lost in the past the money they spent training these people. Best way to resolve that situation would be to get them back (and fix the problems that caused them (and many more soon) to leave in the first place.)