Chinese postgraduate student Aggie Li has likened the government’s move to cut the number of international students allowed into universities to tackle the housing crisis to “blaming the guest for your own housekeeping issues”.

The 29-year-old, who grew up in Jiangsu Province before moving to Australia in 2020 to study anthropology at the University of Melbourne, says Chinese students, who make up 22 per cent of the country’s international cohort, may consider looking elsewhere.