Late last year, Labor backbencher Julian Hill warned that Australia’s international education system had become a “ponzi scheme” for enticing non-genuine students with unfettered work rights and permanent residency, which were being ruthlessly exploited by some education agents:
“Uncapped work rights is being misused by agents in many parts of the world who are flogging our precious student visa as some kind of cheap, low rent work visa. No one should permit that to continue,” Mr Hill said…
“We know that the incentive of a permanent visa to Australia is like a golden ticket from Willy Wonka’s chocolate bar,” Mr Hill said.
