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Coalition frontbencher Sarah Henderson and an ad for migration and education agents.

Senior Liberal headlines event for student visa agents before tanking migration bill

Coalition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson headlined an event for migration agents and private colleges in the weeks before tanking Labor’s high-profile student caps bill.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal

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Data shows the majority of students whose visa appeals were finalised in the latest six-week period were successful.

International student appeal backlog doubles in five months and ‘will only get bigger’

More than 20,000 students are contesting their visa refusals – roughly double the number in June – and most have been successful lately.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Rikard Reardon will attend an orphans’ Christmas lunch.

‘There’s a lot of us out there’: The people celebrating Christmas solo

International traveller Rikard Reardon is part of a community of people celebrating Christmas Day away from family. He says it can be quite a joyful way to spend the holiday.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
The Coalition has given its strongest signal yet that it will target rich city universities - such as Sydney, Melbourne, UNSW and Monash - with its own student caps.

Coalition doubles down on promise of student caps, but still doesn’t say how

The Coalition has given its strongest signal yet that it will target rich city universities such as Sydney, Melbourne, UNSW and Monash with its own student caps.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Visa applications from overseas students have halved compared to July and August last year.

Go-slow visas to provide quick fix for ballooning international student numbers

Labor will issue a go-slow on student visa processing once universities hit a certain number to get around Peter Dutton’s decision to block its student caps bill.

  • Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
Judy McMahon, the owner of Catalina Restaurant in Rose Bay, relies on foreign hospitality students.

‘Australians don’t want to do the work’: Top restaurants slam migration crackdown

Judy McMahon, owner of Rose Bay harbourside restaurant Catalina, said more than half of her employees were on visas.

  • Daniella White
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AI has made university assessments a huge challenge.

Cheating is now so rampant that uni degrees have become worthless

The university as we know it is dead. COVID-19 nearly killed it, and AI has dealt the final blow.

  • Mindy MacLeod
Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Dan Tehan.

‘In bed with education agents’: Coalition under fire as Tehan dines with agents

Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan was the featured guest at a private breakfast attended by education and migration agents the day before sinking Labor’s bill.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaks in Canberra today.

Rich city universities got off too lightly under Labor’s caps: Dutton

Peter Dutton promised deeper cuts to student numbers and said “plenty of international students in pretty schmick accommodation” were stopping Australians from accessing housing.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Peter Dutton, international students.

Migration scheme in turmoil as Coalition, Greens torpedo overseas student caps

Labor’s laws to limit the number of foreign students have been blocked, the government calling Peter Dutton “a fraud” over his party’s decision.

  • Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos

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