GA Award 2003
I have dug up copies of the GA award from March 2004 (effective 27/11/03) and September 2005 (eff 31/03/05).
I will upload them and post links to them in due course.
The base salary for SE CHTR in 04 was $27,310
The average Australian income (based on Full-time private sector ordinary time earnings data on the ABS website) in Feb 04 was $50,700
The base salary for SE CHTR in 05 was $29,182
The Average Australian income in FY 05 was $51,802
The base salary for SE CHTR in 2010 is $33,173
The Average Australian income in Aug 09 is $61,328
Assuming that about 10% of our earnings are made up of allowances etc, you would need the base award salary of a DHC-8 Captain to make "average" Australian wages.