Local or expat, it doesn't really matter.
What does matter is what our licence is worth in the market.
By the company's own admission, the market rate for a licenced and type rated operator is salary + housing + benefits. Though really it's all just money. No argument is going to convince me that expatriates have a unique entitlement to these emoluments. Once you've done the hard graft and QL you are an airline pilot, notwithstanding flying F15's, bug-smashers out of Woolongong or even a 250hr cadet.
Simply put, locals are being paid less than 50% what they ought.