It has been raised on other occasions, but this time the World Bank has called out the ABS claim that international students are Australia's “fourth-largest export”. Indian students are used as an example of the myth. “Indian students drain money from Australia”.
(https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/07/indian-students-drain-money-from-australia/)

Spending by students is incorrectly described as exports, with students paying for goods and services in Australian dollars while living and working here.

In 2024, the outflow of remittances from Australia was more than $15 billion, tracking the “volume of international students studying (?) in Australia”.

$4.8 billion of that figure was sent to India from Australia. (World Bank et al).

Indian students top the 10 highest remitters of money out of Australia. Chinese come second. Permanent immigrants from the two countries also lend a hand at an “unprecedented” rate.

It is the recipient countries benefiting from the “driver of economic activity”.

The massive outflows of money should be deducted from the “fantastical” $51 billion of “export” income from international students touted by the ABS.

The sucking of wealth out of Australia continues. The cutting back on immigrants was just one of Albanese’s lies, and 245,890 more foreigners - permanent and long term (students) have already rocked up in the first 5 months of this year. In May, there were 1,200 more students than in the same month last year.

In the first four months of 2025, the number of foreign students recorded was, 794,113 - 24,000 more than the same period in 2024.

Where & when have students ever been a source of revenue ? Whatever 'contribution' they make is merely tax exempt purchasing of qualifications of inferior quality.
One doesn't get to see any intellectualism at protest rallies or on-camera interviews of students.
The ones who actually study & become useful professionals are probably 0.1% out of a thousand. Please correct me me if I'm too generous with my guess.

It's not just money going out of Australia. Jobs have been exported to India and China ever since the West allowed China into the WTO.

Just now, the Commonwealth Bank has been taken to court for allegedly outsourcing “hundreds of jobs to India”. The Finance Sector Union has accused the CBA of defying Clause 36 of the agreement that defines redundancy. Simply, people cannot be made redundant if there is work to be done, and that work is given to other people to do.

Mr. Modi is another good mate of Albanese. He must be due to visit India again, and do the deals he did when he was there last time: importing more Indians to send Australian dollars back to India. I have nothing against Indians themselves. But they belong in India, not Australia.

Adam Creighton, Chief Economist at the Institute of Public Affairs,rightly says that immigration is our biggest social and economic problem.

In Victoria, at least, people who were not born here, speaking little or no English and therefore useless to the economy, are eligible for taxpayer funded housing. 1.2 million of them. A “cynic” , he said, would think that the political class was trying to “destroy Australian culture”.

We have all heard about politicians “replacing the population”, and the question of how to do this was put to AI, the answer was a lot like the Albanese government’s mass immigration mania. The ‘offended’ reaction from the Left indicated it was true.

Back to the lack of housing for people already here. For every 1% rise in immigration, the cost of apartment rents and prices rose by 5% and 1.3% respectively.

80% of Australians want less immigration. But who cares about Australians! Not the politicians who live far away from the multicultural masses.

“ …. but immigration is far and away Australia’s biggest social and economic problem, and it’s a sad indictment on our public debate that it takes AI to point it out”

You like the money their parents bring from India, you like the work they do, you like their products and services, you just don't like them non-Europeans, thinking that you are somehow better because your ancestors came from holy England, the empire on which the sun never sets.

When you enter a nursing home, half the staff there as well as the most efficient and caring, are Indian - dandified Australian natives of British ancestry are just too refined to wipe your dirty English bum once you become too old to clean it yourself.

Yuyutsu,
That's one of your more racist & hypocritical posts apart from being also one of the most stupid.
Of course, you are likely an anti-White supporter in which case the post serves its purpose.

Yuyutsu

If by “you” you mean me, I don't like anything brought here ‘from India’. The topic is about money going from here TO India.

But, yes, I do prefer ‘Europeans’, or rather people of Anglo Saxon descent, because that's my heritage. I'm not ashamed to say that. And I'm sure that non-Europeans and non-Anglos feel the same way about themselves: or they should.

You insult me. You insult the British Empire, without which you wouldn't be here, safe from the dangers of living in Israel.

I hope to be dead rather than in a nursing home, but yes, most of those places are staffed by people with unintelligible accents, which is a huge problem to old people with hearing problems. I already need hearing aids to hear people I grew up with. I am at a serious loss trying to understand non-English speaking foreigners.

And yes, the situation arises because Australians don't like dirty jobs. That arises because of mass immigration as a ‘fix’ instead of spoilt young Australians being told to do the bloody jobs or starve. It all comes back to Australian politicians.

I was born here. Life used to be much better. I can't leave because of what has become of it, but you might be able to escape the “dandified Australian natives of British ancestry” who permitted you to immigrate.