Thanks all for your lovely responses!
Yes employment is ridiculous down here to be honest at the moment. I'm really well educated, good experience but it seems so much to be more about who you know as opposed to what you know.
Faired a little better in Melbourne but I fear perhaps my CV is not presented correctly or something as truthfully some of the jobs I have never heard back from I should at least have had an interview for.
Never mind, keep plugging away again!!!!