NTS Check: Some very good information there in your post.
However, none of the proposed reforms will address the industrial issues regarding remuneration and career prospects that Flying Instructors need.
That is the key to keeping suitably qualified individuals in the flying training industry.
The problem with the current situation is that instructors enjoy significantly poorer wages and conditions than unskilled workers in other industries. Mainly because they accept them. In no other industry are professionals required to work hard doing all sorts of duties at the flying school for days on end but only getting paid for your flying.
This is a particular problem in large cities, such as Sydney where the cost of living is extremely high, and it is extremely difficult to make ends meet, particularly if you have family committments. Only the yuppy kids living at home with mum and dad can really afford to live on such pitiful wages and conditions. And most of these yuppy kids have their eye on bigger and better things.
So we live in a vicious circle.....