i found the australian job market to be a bit discriminatory in terms of type of employments they offer.
Indians and South east Asians are offered only contract jobs whilst the europeans (especially those from UK, Ireland) are offered permenant roles. The reason for this being people who are employed on contract basis are easy to retrench by just giving a week's notice.
I have observed this in a lot of organisations out here where Indians and South east Asians are targeted first when it comes to reducing the workforce.
