This Month
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- Immigration
Cap chaos: NIDA has places for students it’s not supposed to teach
New government data reveals multiple instances of erroneous and confusing allocations of international student caps.
- Julie Hare
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- Immigration
$4b economic pain from student cuts, much more to come
Universities have enlisted state treasurers in their bid to stop migration reforms they say are damaging and counterproductive.
- Julie Hare
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- Immigration
Clare tells VCs: shut up on caps or suffer the consequences
The only thing vice chancellors hate more than caps on overseas students is ministerial direction 107. Jason Clare has now handed them a tough ultimatum.
- Julie Hare
CBA’s AI move is just the start of job losses
Readers’ letters on the impact of artificial intelligence; a better deal for northern Australia; international students; wisdom from the AFR; and cheap fashion.
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- Immigration
Banned colleges allocated thousands of places under student caps
Private vocational colleges say the allocation of caps for new international students for 2025 has been a ramshackle process.
- Julie Hare
Housing’s vicious cycle | US debate’s investor clues | Lithium rollercoaster
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony examine why housing is eating the economy, decipher what the presidential debate really means for investors, and explain why it’s a fascinating time for the lithium sector.
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- Anthony Macdonald and James Thomson
Property investors lash Labor’s plan to cut international students
The federal government intends to reduce the number of overseas admissions by 30 per cent, which the real estate sector says is short-sighted.
- Michael Bleby
Only 5000 overseas students for regional unis will live outside CBDs
Regional universities have been told they must fix their enrolment practices and will face separate regional and metro quotas for 2026.
- Julie Hare
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- GDP
Capping overseas students will trigger recession: economists
Australia’s commodities surge is over. Yet, the booming $50bn education sector is the subject of ferocious cuts with dire consequences.
- Julie Hare
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- Skills
World-first EV degree sideswiped by allocation of zero students
It took four years and $4.3 million to get Nova Anglia College ready to open its doors, but the government says it cannot have any overseas students in 2025.
- Julie Hare
‘More for a second-hand toothbrush’: Why EVs are on the nose
The most commonly held concerns about buying an electric vehicle related to upfront cost, charging facilities, and deterioration.
- Gus McCubbing
August
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- Immigration
‘Irrational’: caps cut best overseas students from mix
The government’s attempt to cap new overseas students is a “train wreck” as universities struggle to understand their numbers and colleges don’t have theirs.
- Julie Hare
‘Go elsewhere’: news of student caps hits Chinese social media
Fatigued by a year of migration reforms, students in China think they are being treated badly by Australia.
- Julie Hare
Uni student caps ‘dramatically bad for the economy’
Economists are not impressed by the decision to cap international student places.
- Julie Hare and Gus McCubbing
Major universities smashed in Labor about-face on overseas students
The government will cap numbers and redistribute them across the sector, one of the country’s biggest export industries, with smaller institutions to benefit.
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- Julie Hare
‘Reckless gamble’ threatens $48b industry
International students are worth billions to Australia’s economy but the government has not modelled the impact of a drastic cap on their numbers.
- Julie Hare
Uni VC warns student caps may breach the Constitution
Western Sydney Uni vice chancellor George Williams, a law expert, says the caps bestow a “surprising” concentration of power on Education Minister Jason Clare.
- Julie Hare
Sledgehammer to crack a walnut: Why caps are not the fix for unis
Universities have plenty of problems, but plans to limit international students look like a political answer to a much more complex problem.
- Julie Hare
Limiting international enrolments 'could be an act of self-harm': Scott
University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott says the government and opposition are playing politics with international student numbers.
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- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Musk, Abbott just the tip of the iceberg of climate inaction
Readers’ letters on ‘climate claptrap’; Greens pushing to own mines; the urgency of power grid modernisation; the sad end of Black Caviar; and international student numbers.
