Key Points
- Around 970,000 international students are currently enrolled to study in Australia. Around 440,000 international students started their study this year alone.
- Labor thinks that's too many - they had a plan to cap new commencements to 270,000 a year by giving each institution across the country their own cap as to how many students they could take.
- The Coalition has stripped their support for Labor's plan to limit the foreign student numbers at Australian universities. Instead they vow to introduce their own legislation if they win the next election.
Despite backing caps on student numbers, the opposition has declared it won’t back the bill, facing criticism it's delaying measures that would reduce immigration.
