Politics Now: Foreign student cap 'won't fix the problem': Tehan
Opposition immigration and citizenship spokesperson Dan Tehan said Labor's bill to cap foreign student numbers 'was doing nothing about secondary visas', as he defended the Coalition's decision not to support it.
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