Ah, EBT, the Qantas group is sponsoring 457 visas which are issued by
The Dept Of Immigration, which, I believe,
is a Commonwealth govt entity, and subject to scrutiny by the Commonwealth Ombudsman. If the said dept is issuing visas without the criteria being filled then....Did that really have to be spelled out for you?
As I have mentioned previously (after having been doen this road in the recent past), the Prof is correct. For the issue to get traction with pollies, it has to get media (which it is, a little). For it to get media, there really needs to be a safety angle (for some reason, "doing the right thing" just isnt enough these days). Perception is everything. If the public started reading stories about how they are going to be flown around by the pilot equivalent of the 'dodgy doctor' (as metioned in one of the open letters), it would get traction. Think 'dodgy third world pilots' and 'Qantas group' in the same sentence, over and over.