IIRC it was reported some 2-4 years ago in some stats that more than 50-75%?? of new issue CPLs and maybe ATPLs were issued to overseas students mainly for the Asian schools/airlines.
The number of Australians getting these quals were very few esp new CPLs.
You'd be right about CPLs, given the number of 'international' students getting CPLs, but there couldn't be many ATPLs - those students are doing pretty much minimal times, nowhere near the 1500 hrs required for an ATPL.