The problem with Nursing and many other industries in Australia is simply that in the early 1980s the Government decided that it was a hell of a lot cheaper to rent foreign nurses and doctors... and engineers etc...all the necessary trades...rather than invest in the actual education of Australians. This is why, me, at 63, can always get a job in nursing whereas, in a better organised state, I couldn't, I'd be long retired now, because of the upward pressure of the young professionals as happens everywhere else on earth in all the progressive societies. The rented folk, a lot of the time, just went home at the end of their contracts as they did indeed have their own good countries to go back to...thus leaving us with a multi-generational deficit of folk with skills...and this was government policy...the policy of many governments over the decades that have refused to take on the responsibility of real governance, and the responsibility for the future of Australians. This was a remarkably foolish and selfish decision based upon economic rationalism set over a 3 year government term rather than a good idea for the country as the years went by..and so we live in these times and have troubles now, not because the world is more complex, but simply because so many atrocious decisions were made by quite a few governments fearing the task of being actually responsible.