Is this because you are not a mining engineer and it would not affect you????? Strange that there are no doctors /nurses / engineers / dentists / school teachers, etc. etc. going on the internet to whinge about foreing workers.
Because there are literally
HUNDREDS, if not
THOUSANDS of other employers that a doctors /nurses / engineers / dentists / school teachers can go and work for, or start their own business.
Australian pilots effectively have 2 employers.
What would 1000 foreign doctors do for the average doctors T&C's?
What would 1000 foreign pilots do to the average pilots T&C's?