G'day,
Judging by the dearth of responses to your question, I think you can see that not only is it hard to get into civil aviation today, but probably will be for the forseeable future.
Could I suggest evaluating your skills and talents and using your remaining time in the mob to getting some training/education in a different career field to broaden your potential. At least consider the avionics world because you might have more options that way than just engine work and of course aircraft today are avionic everything.
Avionics could give you openings in GA. local component overhaul or airlines; whereas major engine maintenance has tended to be outsourced to a few big players, and I'm not sure if there any dunnunder. The Kiwis used to have a GE partnership for Pacific engine work when they had DC10's but I don't know if that's still going.
I did my apprenticeship at Fishermans Bend and ended up having to go to the UK for an airline job when I'd done my time, so I understand your predicament.