Australian universities have reacted with alarm to the Coalition’s migration policy released today, which proposes cutting net overseas migration to 100,000 and reducing foreign student numbers.
Vice-chancellors are facing the prospect of fewer international students to charge enormous fees to — and fewer students available for campus activism, Palestine protests and campaigns such as the University of Sydney’s “Globalise the Intifada”.
The timing is particularly awkward given the Omani co-pilot accused of trying to seize control of a Flydubai flight last week previously studied engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne.
Indian captain Smit Machchhar fought the alleged attacker and, with help from Israeli passengers and crew, managed to get the plane safely on the ground.
A genuinely heroic story that somehow disappeared from the news almost immediately.