The Morrison government relaxed the cap on international students and extended the time they could stay here. Up went the number of ‘students’.

Albanese increased mass immigration and improved students’ chances of permanent residence, which is part and parcel of the desire to ‘study’ in Australia. Albanese also extended the number of hours they could work.

Immigrants were given 5 year student visas and 8 year “post-study” work visas.

This has delivered us huge numbers of non-authentic students, shonky education agents, and scam colleges.

Many Indians and Africans come here for work rights and permanent residency.

Albanese has now reduced the post-study work rights by two years, angering ‘students’ who say that they would not have come here had they known about it (surveyed).

Jolly good! It's a start that might go some way to controlling Australia’s population numbers to fit the country, not the mania to make the GDP look good, while impoverishing individuals who can't afford to buy a house or rent one of the few houses available; ease the pressure on the health system transport and all other services not being improved by the Big Australian Brigade.

There are about 700,000 foreign ‘students’ in Australia: not all of them are actually here to study.

(Source: Leith van Onselen, ‘Macrobusiness’, 16/4/24)

Australian Universities entire business model is based on foreign students, without them not much would work.

But I agree with you that many are not here to study. I saw that first hand as a guest lecturer. Qualifications are now a 'Product' to be purchased. My first tertiary qualification was free, lecturers failed people like me if we were not up to standard, no so now.

Random,

There is no doubt that universities are addicted to foreign students, and they need to be weaned off them. The problem is that governments have a similar addiction to importing people, so nothing is going to happen. Universities will continue to be back door immigration agents.

As for the shortage of rental housing because of all the foreign students in the market, it has been suggested that universities should be required to provide student accommodation to the tune of 2,000 premises for every 4,000 students they take money from.

pretty depressing to witness the only ones who can not grasp what's going on are the ones in charge !

It's a bit of a 'shoot yourself in the foot policy' if you think about it.

We're saying 'Hey foreigners, come to our country - we'll train you with all the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in a western society, and once you have those skills and that knowledge, you can use our country as a place to test and use those skills and that knowledge.
You can use your contacts and foreign language back in China or India or whatever country you're from to undercut all existing Australian businesses with a cheaper imported product or service;
Thus transferring the existing wealth of Australian businesses into foreign pockets, and putting Aussie workers in the dole queue...

Are they trying to say this is a win for capitalism, a win for Australia?
'Universities contribute greatly to the Australian economy'

Things have gotten so messed up these days that they don't make any sense.

We have this culture that champions democracy above all else.
But we also have this even bigger counter-culture that champions the 'minority' above all else.
Democracy is supposed to be about the will of the majority, not the will of the minority.
How does it make sense?
It's total madness.

Perhaps not madness by the perpetrators, but deliberate maddening of the masses, causing them to fight among themselves, while Albanese quietly changes the country as he said he would.

There is a solution, but it is one that is only available if enough voters stop voting for the Labor Green Alliance and the Coalition.

There are about 17 million voters who don't seem to have a clue where Australia is being pushed; nor do they realise that they are the only ones who can do anything about it.

"Following one of Australia’s most prosperous periods in history, the Albanese government has managed to increase the cost of living and reduce our sense of security in less than one political term. Further, our government has divided us along cultural lines and perpetuated a self-hating attitude towards all things that are good about our liberal democratic and Judaeo-Christian traditions and heritage." (Michael de Percy)

And the Clayton's Opposition is sitting, watching it happen.

Singapore, with none of the advantages that Australia has, enjoys a GDP twice the size of Australia's.

Both Labor and Liberals have a penchant for flooding the country with huge numbers of immigrants, many of whom remain attached to the violence and hatreds of their past.

The proposed Digital ID brings us another step closer to the Chinese communist-style credit score system; as does the threatened removal of cash.

50 % of Australia is already subject to Native Title, denying access to 97% of Australians. Now the Labor Green Alliance is denying the 97% access to further 30% of Australian land mass, leaving only 20% of the Australian land mass for them.

The Labor Green alliance intends placing unelected unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of private information and to control 80 per cent of the whole of the Australian land mass.The Labor Green Alliance wants to replace the free enterprise capitalist economy with big government, big bureaucracy and big population which will only be permitted to occupy 20% of the land.

Worse to come.