The way I see it as an employer for the last 6 years in my own company I would say a lot of graduates are poorly adjusted to life in general. And it's getting worse. I do have a good tolerance for certain activities, but spending all day on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc etc just doesn't cut it. If a graduate wants a job in my company (and I've met a fair few graduates in the last few years from IT, computer science, software engineering, marketing, communications, business, finance) I think the first important message they should receive is 'pull your head in'.
And as for this in the article:
<persons> future should look bright. By the time she turns 26, she will hold a bachelor's and a master's degree, and have more than 10 years' experience working in fields including healthcare, education, research, management, customer service, hospitality and administration. Yet the 22-year-old is worried about finding decent work after she graduates.
By my count and most employers counts, this isn't 10 years of experience (@ 26yo). Even part time at best I'd qualify it with maybe 5 years of experience working, and 5/6 years of study. Some relevant and some personally beneficial but wholly immaterial toward a specialists role. These are independent aspects which I think people generally understand themselves but are all to arrogant to admit themselves. When I put on a senior developer, or software architect, or senior accounts manager, these people with "10 years of experience" have been doing their trade commercially for 10 years.
If he wants a graduate job as an engineer working on electronics
As for electronics...this was the case really early on. I know some of the pioneers of electrical/computer engineering in Australia and this sort of work has long been extinct in Australia. What you brother should be doing is going abroad for a few years, and come back with the experience and know how to be a new age pioneer of electronics in Australia with some of his university mates, or professors.
A lot of people want to blame everyone else, but they won't take responsibility for their own shortcomings. This last bit isn't a comment toward your brother, I hope he does go abroad, and I hope he does come back. Because I'll invest, and I have the time, capital, and contacts to do just that.