Being a teacher in Australia is hard work, there power has been taken away by the PC brigade which has removed there power as far as any physical discipline is concerned.
When I say that I refer to the primary school pupils where in my time it was out with the cane and banged the point home to not fok around.
We have many long term Quality teachers in Perth and they command respect from the vast majority of the population, the ones that don't respect them are the scum that are worthless and not worthy of a quality teachers time.
Totally different story from the 30 day TEFLling applicants in Thailand.
Also a long term quality teachers pulls a nice wedge and light years ahead of a 30 K TEFLer in Thailand.