Peter Dutton promised deeper cuts to student numbers and said “plenty of international students in pretty schmick accommodation” were stopping Australians from accessing housing.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he tanked Labor’s international student caps because they pandered to rich city universities whose students were furthering the housing crisis, as he promised deeper cuts to migration under a Coalition government.. He said the opposition’s plans for introducing its own caps and policies to lower foreign student numbers would be “revealed in due course” and deliver housing back to Australians.
“Let’s be frank about it. Now, there will be other students from other parts of the world who are, you know, scrimping and saving every dollar to send their kids here,” he said. “ Mark Scott made $1.4 billion in one year. And the government essentially is baking in that opportunity for the University of Sydney and the other seven. And that’s not something that we’re going to support.”
While Dutton didn’t put a figure on what he thought was an appropriate number of foreign students – Clare set next year’s level across the sector at 270,000 – he said “of course there will be deeper cuts because I want housing for Australians”.
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