The Melbourne suburbs the international student drought will hit hardest

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The flow of international students into Australia came to an almost complete stop in April. Just 30 international students arrived or returned to Australia in April, down from 43,380 in April 2019.

International students made up almost 40 per cent of the population of some Melbourne suburbs last year, contributing billions to neighbourhood economies.

Carlton, which had 9633 resident foreign students, and Clayton with 9506, were the second and third most populous suburbs for international students in the nation.Other suburbs where overseas students made up more than 10 per cent of the population include North Melbourne, Southbank, Docklands, Box Hill, Kingsbury, Burwood, Parkville and Footscray.

Peter Hurley, the report’s author and policy fellow at the Mitchell Institute, said the steep drop in student numbers this year would deliver a heavy blow to local businesses, even after lockdown restrictions are lifted.“There is clearly economic activity associated with large numbers of people and if you remove them, that is going to have an effect on all the local businesses … we’re talking about thousands of people who are no longer living in certain suburbs simply because of the coronavirus.

 

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You seem to have Tourette’s syndrome. One minute it’s the world is ending no foreign students & the next government says more foreign students than ever will come to Australia’ 🙄 & Asian cool? Sorry, never seen it 😳

What does “they bring street life and a certain kind of north-east Asian cool” actually mean? I’ve not seen that in Clayton ever. Clayton Road needs a complete overhaul and clean up because of all the dingy take aways and restaurants. Cool it is not. Unsightly it is.

BLM before any of that. White power and white privilege since first contact by British white demon terrorists must end in Australia first!

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