International students have emerged, yet again, as the punching bag distracting from systemic problems homegrown here in Australia.
Australia’s Education Minister Jason Clare and then Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil have put international students in the crosshairs, with caps on student numbers, the doubling of non-refundable application fees, and measures stopping tourists from switching to student visas.
In the field of housing policy, Ben Eltham has rightly noted the “current shortage of affordable housing took a generation to develop and has many contributing factors”, including conservative tax reform, and public housing policy.
Commodified education is no different.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) leaders told The
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