Proposed cuts to Australia’s annual migrant intake could seriously damage one of its largest exports – education.
That’s the opinion of International Education Association of Australia president Stephen Connell, who says “By the end of next year we anticipate at least 100,000 fewer students will be in the country – that’s two billion(dollars) off the export figure and upwards of 25,000 jobs will be lost across the country.”
And in terms of who was to blame for this, Senator NIck Xenophon of South Australia laid the blame directly at the door of warring politicians.
“These policies are about trying to cover up for a lack of infrastructure spending that has lead to a drop in quality of life in some parts of Australia,” he said.
“We shouldn’t be blaming the migrants, we should be blaming the hopeless ministers for planning, the tight treasurers and the ineffectual premiers.”
