An export that's going elsewhere

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27 August 2010Australia's international education industry is in crisis, says Simon Marginson in The Age, but you won't hear political leaders talking about it

AS JULIA GILLARD and Tony Abbott get down to serious horse-trading with the clutch of former Nationals and one Green, you can be sure of one thing. Measures to avert the collapse of Victoria's largest export industry, international education, will not be discussed.

It is an open secret the industry is in dire trouble. But its problem is not on the political agenda. This is because the political agenda is the problem – and both sides of parliament are complicit …

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