


Address deep-rooted racism to support int’l students, Australian gov’t told
Earlier in February the Chinese Ministry of Education issued a warning to students about traveling to Australia due to personal safety reasons, claiming there had been “successive vicious incidents of overseas students being attacked in many places in Australia”....
some students falling through cracks in support schemes
With extensive job losses in the casual labour market and families’ income in home countries being hijacked by Covid, international students expecting to support themselves are now being forced to rely on food banks and some are now living in crowded accommodation....
calls to improve access to mental health support
Coroner Audrey Jamieson ordered the Coroners Prevention Unit to identify other deaths of international students in the state in circumstances consistent with suicide, in her 2019 findings into the death of a 24 year old Chinese born student who “suicided in the...