King pin demands permanent residency for international students

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With the federal election in the rearview mirror, chief executive of lobby group the International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, has called on the federal government to make Australia more attractive to international students by fulfilling “the implicit promise of pathways to migration”:

A major policy area no political party has dared to address during the election campaign is a “big Australia” population policy. Yet each leader has acknowledged the dire need for additional skilled workers to support our nation’s post-Covid recovery…

On December 15 last year, our Prime Minister was quoted as saying to international students “come on down”…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.