A million foreign students and their families are in Australia—overcrowding schools, straining housing, and bleeding tens of billions of $$ out of the country.
Courses are being used as backdoor permanent residency pathways, with poor standards and little oversight.
One Nation will:
✅ Deport visa cheats
✅ End family visas for students
✅ Introduce 8-year wait times for benefits
✅ Free up homes for young Aussies
It’s time to fix the rort and put Australians first.
Transcript
I move:
That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator Watt) to a question without notice I asked today relating to international students.
I asked: has the government lost control of student visa holders? The Australian public have had enough of the government pretending immigration is fine. So many people are entering that the government has lost control. Foreign students are now allowed to bring in spouses, de facto partners and children under 18 who attend state schools and contribute to overcrowding. Spouses can work 24 hours a week, or, if the student is a postgraduate, they can work full time with no restrictions. Buying a first degree and coming in as a graduate student opens the door to a financial windfall and helps to explain how foreign visa holders were able to last year send $15 billion home to their families—money that leaves Australia forever, making our economy and our people poorer.
In the last two years, the early education graduate diploma at the Southern Cross University has had 6,000 enrolments. The ABC reports that courses like this are being used as permanent residency pathways, with courses dumbed down to keep the gravy train going. There are confirmed issues around graduates not speaking English and not understanding child protection policies, safe sleep or even hygiene. There are 1.1 million foreign students and their families currently in Australia.
One Nation will deport every visa holder who is breaching their visa, a figure close to 100,000 when the number of dishonest foreign students is included. We will introduce an eight-year waiting period for social security benefits, including Medicare, and we will cancel the visa for spouses and siblings to accompany students entirely. In the age of online learning, there is no need for a student with children to come to Australia in person. The Albanese government’s student visa rort is selling out young Australians, causing record homelessness. We will free up tens of thousands of houses for young Australians, who, thanks to the government, currently face the worst housing crisis and the worst housing market in Australian history. (Time expired)
Absolutely ,,! Totally agree on all that you say . But it’s hard convincing uninformed young whom are already brainwashed into leftist socialism dished up via leftist media told what to say by 2 major government parties running it
Thank you for your great work – much appreciated
Another idea would be to have a department that enables people to dob in a visa cheat , same goes for any suspicious looking foreigners that are hold up somewhere in suburbia , I’m sure this is the norm in China .
Hi Malcolm, thanks for your latest email which keeps us informed about what is happening in our country. We were concerned to learn that a million foreign students and their families are now in Australia, making it more difficult for our grand-children to access home ownership and/or rental. This large number of immigrants are rorting the system and are getting away with it, to the extent they can afford to send $15 billion back to their families. This has to be stopped, but unfortunately our Labour government has no intention of doing this, so it will be our families who are disadvantaged. Cheers Norma and Wes
So So spot on …. But what was the answer and the vote from the Mob … ?
Every suggestion if carried out would make one hell of a difference to Australia.
Why are we as a Nation seeming so bloody stupid .. Someone is obviously making a lot of money ..