Maybe Jet* should re-write their ads and state the actual situation with some honesty: "Australian residency/citizenship for sale. Going cheap: grossly sub-standard wages and conditions (only) for the 3(?) years it will take to to qualify for your Aussie passport - and then you're free to join the native born Australian pilots overseas where you can earn a halfway decent living.
Bonus: along with the obligatory six free steak knives, your family, both immediate and extended, get an Aussie passport too!!"
Three years from now, they can import another lot of cheap labour under similar conditions when this lot collect their passports - and walk. (Note to Patrick's management: maybe you should try this with the wharfies as well?)
If the senior people in Government aren't too thick to see through this full of holes scam Jet* management are trying to foist upon them and the Australian public, they're in on it, as they were the last time they imported foreign pilots in large numbers to destroy the wages and conditions of local pilots. It's the same Party in power as was in power then, and I would imagine that many of the ministers and senior staffers now in Canberra were junior staffers who were actively involved in the implemention the Labor Governmen't "destroy Australian Aviation" (for that's what it did) policy in the year that started the whole sorry mess Australian Aviation has become.
Or maybe they're got the Silver Bodgie is as a specialist consultant?