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‘We are being sacrificed’: Foreign students hit back at caps

‘We are being sacrificed’: Foreign students hit back at caps

Kepuyan Wu, from China, is frustrated by the federal government’s move to cap new foreign students at 270,000 in 2025 as a response to the housing crisis.

Chinese international student Kepuyan Wu says the federal government should spend more time developing Australia’s economy, rather than “accusing foreign students of causing the housing crisis”.

The 23-year-old, who grew up in the central Chinese city of Xi’an, has enjoyed the practical focus of her journalism master’s at the University of Melbourne, including learning how to record and edit audio and visual content.

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