international students

The Labor government will scrap a rule that automatically fails a potential international student if they express intention to settle down in Australia.

The Tory leader has said the minister’s comment on the high number of international students in Canada is a ‘vicious attack’ on his predecessor Sean Fraser.

The minister says the ‘volume is disconcerting.’

With genuine housing shortages and infrastructure bottlenecks, the ‘big Australia’ concept unsurprisingly no longer enjoys the favour it might have once had.

The government want to reduce the number of temporary visa holders prolonging their stay in the country without a clear pathway to permanent residence.

The head of a food bank in Oshawa says there was ’tremendous abuse and manipulation' of their services by international students.

‘The rorts and loopholes that have plagued this system will be shut down,’ said Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil.