problem is
given the current Oz manglement culture of putting HR droids, beancounters, so-called project managers aka bullies in charge at obscene wages and a blind belief in giving all contracts to known poor performers at higher cost than inhouse, I now encourage my grandchildren to avoid IT. Long hours, dropping pay, mounting paperwork and joyful bureaucratic obstruction make it too stressful. Aside from that, anything involving ACS rings my alarm bells.
A final niggle is the observation that some of the best IT staff I have worked with did not have tertiary qualifications while some of the worst did. A few work conversations discussed this issue and came to the general conclusion that a degree indicates very little, despite it being HRs lazy way of assessing applications. A few more years and the children of non-elite Oz will only have the options of pre-Castro Cuba.
Do not like to rain on your parade, but avoiding optimism is the only sane way to cope with current employment problems of everyone given the last 4+ governments hostility to increasing local employment options.