The first step, Raptor, would be for the Minister for Transport to rein in the property developers who have a stranglehold on the capital city airports. The only one who ever stood up to them was Mark Vaile.
Agree with you the massive wastage of money on the VET schemes (and it continues, although slightly less) could have made a massive difference to existing pilots ready to jump up to the next step instead of leaving masses of brand new CPLs looking for non existent jobs at that 150-200 hour level...if they were able to qualify before the administrators moved in because of the people enjoying the ride on the gravy train made all the money disappear.