O Poor bugger me.
It is because of the stream of pilots working for nothing, paying for icus, a very few shortsighted cheapskate operators and a government that relies on publicly supported operators that others cannot compete with that GA is the way it is.
EVERYBODY has to treat GA with much more respect and look at the long term if GA is to develope the way it should.
The outback will not develope properly without a healthy GA. The gold and oil will stay in the ground.
GA is also an indicator of what our airlines will become. And we cannot get GA right without some sort of financial handout.
We are doing it wrong if the whole industry needs handouts to survive.