Bath, I think it will be the practice in the banking industry in Australia in a few years. My uncle is a director of one of the large English banks and his bank has done a lot to eliminate the old boy network because they want a higher standard of employee. When he was the director of an Australian bank a few years ago they were just starting to make changes that English banks had made a few years previously. I suspect that in employment too Australia is a few years behind.
Very very true. I can attest to that because I've been working for my father (psychologist) for the past 15 years. One of the biggest HR companies in Aus uses his aptitude tests for the upper end employment of all the big industries (hr, mining etc). They came to him years ago because they were sick of losing thousands of $$$ employing people that looked good on paper but not up to scratch in reality.

You know, it's AMAZING how many people in high corporate roles really truly want to be out painting landscapes instead....