‘Piecemeal’ Solution: Coalition Opposes International Student Caps

The federal opposition has strongly opposed the government’s plans to cap international students at 270,000, dismissing it as a “piecemeal” solution to broader immigration concerns. With just weeks before the laws were set to take effect, the Coalition vowed to vote against the policy, arguing it failed to address the underlying issues. Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan stated that the bill would not fix the root problems affecting Australia’s immigration system. “We’ve seen a doubling of the number of international students here in Australia, our research points to the fact there is over a million people here now who are either on international student visas or who came here on international student visas, and this is in a housing and rental crisis,” he told Sky News Australia....