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Slaves to the system - do international students have rights? : Comments
By Wesa Chau, published 19/5/2010Australia has a funny way of treating its honoured guests and trade lynchpin - international students.
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It is true that the goverment needs to crack down on restaurants and other businesses paying less than the miniumum wage to students or any others. But we also need to ask why students came here with insufficient funds to support themselves. Of course, for the reason see above.
If Wesa Chau had migrated to mainland China from Hong Kong rathan than coming to Australia then she would know what real "slavery" is like and what it means to lack human rights! Most tertiary students - domestic and foreign - "struggle" with their incomes - it is almost a tradition. Another Australian student tradition is living in share houses (although crowding many people into one bedroom as happens in some places recently is obviously not conducive to study). All in all I detect a bit of "silver spoon" syndrome in these complaints.