Or maybe we need to invest in a local skill base. Companies and the government play this stupid game of isolating everybody's skill set and ignoring the bigger picture. Nobody will hire on potential.
Why on earth is it so hard to get into Medicine yet we are importing over a 1000 doctors a year? Are they really of the same calibre and the same standard?
Same with aviation. Why is it that the locals can have enormous amounts of experience yet companies can just ignore this and hire foreigners who would be laugh at if they were Australians due to their lack of experience. But they have a type rating.