So what’s up TikTok? Welcome back. It’s been a while. What’s going on? So, uh, there’s this news that has just come out yesterday that, uh, the minister for uh, Home Affairs, the new minister, Mister Claire, uh, has proposals in Parliament to cap the, uh, the international students numbers in Australia. So what this means they want to put, uh, a, a, a limit of uh, international students that can come to Australia. So the proposed number is 270,000. So what this means, it’s a proposal. It’s not been approved by Parliament. So if approved, then next year only uh, 270,000, uh, students are allowed to come to Australia. These are also these are this includes all the students that will go to universities and vocational training colleges. I’m not sure about the students that will go to uh, high schools and primary schools because you still have international students that go to those schools as well. So I’ll just give you a background to what is going on here. So you need to remember that Australia exports a lot of er, you know, international, uh, education. So it’s one of the leading markets for international education. International students in Australia is the fourth export earner, which is approximately uh, 27 billion U. S. D. So that’s a reasonable amount of of the economy. So any, anything that will touch on the um, on the international students will definitely be, be felt in the in the in the economy. So There’s some universities in Australia that has a lot of dependence on international students like uh, some private universities for example, Torrens University gets its funding more than half of its funding from from international students. Now if you’re going to reduce the numbers and this is what is going to happen, the government is suggesting that they are going to regulate the numbers and specifically to certain universities. So let’s say, um, they’re going to cut the numbers of international students going to private universities because obviously the government will want to protect government institutions so they will keep numbers going to our public universities. That means the public universities will get more funding from international students and more numbers that means the private sector or the private universities will suffer the most and that is why a lot of universities have shown their dissatisfaction with this move. They believe this move will affect the running of the universities. It will affect the quality of the universities because the quality of education will always depend on funding. So if they are going to cut the numbers of international students going to these universities, that means they will reduce their funding. That’s issue number one issue No. 2, in terms of the impact of that of of of that international student that international student will not only spend money in this in the university but also in the economy in general life. They will will be using, you know, they Will be living somewhere they will be uh eating something they will be you know all their basic needs will be will be they will spend it in Australia so that will be an impact I’m just gonna give you some numbers in 2,014 we had 250,000 international students enrolling in Australia so there’s two numbers here that we want us to look at there’s the enrollment that means the numbers that were accepted the C U s that were offered and there is the students numbers that were here in in the country so at that in 2014 we had two 50 k enrolment and then we had 453 students on on show that number has generally has gradually increased last year in 2,023 we had 320,000 enrollments okay and in total the number of students is around 800,000 international students that are on show in Australia so this number has has obviously grown uh grown over time and er the reason why they are trying to regulate these numbers the biggest issue they always mention is accommodation and I want to give you some perspective international students there’s no statistics there’s no numbers or there’s no data to show that international students have caused er demand for housing and I’ll explain international students the biggest part of international students live in cities they live within the towns so the accommodation they they take are designed specifically for international students a lot of international students live in student accommodation And accommodation that would generally be used for short term accommodation. So in the suburbs, there’s no indication that, uh, they are competing and they are causing a lot of competition for, uh, for the residents, for the, for the, for the accommodation. Another point, international students will always share accommodation. So one house would house more than 3 international students compared to general, um, general residents who would need the whole house for themselves. So the need for, um, an international student or the accommodation need for an international student is not directly affecting the, the, the crisis that we have for our housing in Australia, I believe. And these, the numbers show that the only reason why we don’t have houses in Australia or enough housing in Australia is because of Covid, because of, er, supply and demand, er, issues that, that were caused by Covid. So pointing fingers at international students that are causing the crisis, I think it’s not, uh, it’s not, uh, necessarily true. So there are main issues here now that the universities are raising that this is going to affect the funding of the universities. In the next few years, we’ll start feeling the impact of doing this. So keep your eyes out for more information that is coming. That’s my perspective on this, on this issue. But I believe international students are, are very important part of our economy in Australia. I believe international students play a very, very important role in The quality over education. Thank you very much. And keep watching. And of course, just remember, recycle for dignity. Be a dignity champion. Thank you.