Thanks a lot rotate, foggy and luke for the info. Yeah, I didn't really expect a written invitation, but it's certainly worse than I thought.
Tim, I can't give you any names cause I don't know any, but on our forum (Dunnunda) from time to time OzMates over your way are asking about the opprortunites back home, and usually post a bit of info for us re. the opportunites over there. A week or so ago one Oz CRJ captain in Euro somewhere was posting that his company had just hired guys with <200 hours for an FO slot on a 146. I thought maybe that was becoming the norm. Guess not!
Thanks again guys