Not true. Obviously domestics are placed above but foreign trained medical doctors are placed below domestically trained ones regardless of their citizenship status.
And in nearly every specialty rotation I've done there have been no shortage of FMG's practicing in that specialty.
Please show me anything that can corroborate or substantiate that claim. "Expect" that is a big claim. I would not argue if you had said preferred but you didn't say that so please I would like to know where you got that from.
Yeah. Further training is not guaranteed for anyone. If your a garbage intern employers are not going to want to hire you on for further employment. Again, regardless of citizenship status.
Completing intern year allows you to apply for medical registration provided the criteria in the link I share below are met. Again, regardless of citizenship status.
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
www.medicalboard.gov.au
Please show the stats for this. What does "all but impossible" even mean. 99.9 %.
Actually they have fantastic match stats. Unless they are doing dodgy things with their stats. I believe they have an overall 94 % match rate. It might even be higher if that does not include SOAP.
Anyways. Sorry if this is a bit harsh but the narrative your portraying is a bit disingenuous. Very few international students at the school I attend, since I've been here (MS4 now), have gone back home. So that has to be nearly 100 internationals. Some of which are PGY3 now. All of the current group of interns stayed in Australia. None of them failed to secure employment.
Again, if you are dead set on working in downtown Sydney, Melbourne etc yeah you might not find employment. But that is the same for all students.
Cheers