This report shows that many international graduates stay in Australia on temporary visas once they graduate, but struggle to pursue their chosen careers.

The purpose of this background paper is to give context and detail to the international education component of an inquiry that explores the challenges and opportunities presented to Australia’s tourism and international education sectors since the reopening of Australia’s borders following the pandemic closures.

The story of how Australia’s universities became so dependent on overseas students is no secret. This dependence reflects decisions by successive Coalition and Labor governments to cut back on university funding over the past two decades. This report shows that the share of the universities’ training effort allocated to overseas students has become enormous -...

This report examines the precarity of international students in the private rental sector in Sydney and Melbourne. Drawing on the financial stress indicators developed by the ABS, respondents are divided into 4 groups - secure, moderately precarious, highly precarious and extremely precarious.

While Australia regularly cites education as the foundation of Australia’s relationship with Southeast Asia, these connections are weakening, and pose a risk to Australia’s influence, writes Susannah Patton in this policy brief.