Media Release: Foreign students must be stopped from abusing asylum
Foreign students should be required to return home before applying for further study in Australia to prevent abuse of the immigration system and reduce the backlog in deporting unlawful non-citizens.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said universities addicted to easy foreign student money were complicit in the abuse, which was partly responsible for the record 2.6 million temporary visa holders currently in Australia.
“Many of these people are occupying homes and accessing services that should be for Australians first,” Senator Hanson said. “It’s apparent that when it comes to some of these students, there’s no intention to study and every intention of abusing the system to access economic benefits and high Australian wages.
“There’s been an explosion of foreign students abusing the system with ‘course-hopping’. They get a student visa, drop out soon after and apply to a bunch of bogus schools or courses while remaining on a bridging visa which allows them to work and access housing and services in Australia.
“On average these bridging visas last around 200 days before their new study visa application is processed. If they’re knocked back they just appeal it – the average waiting time for appeals is another 64 weeks, again on a bridging visa. Many even claim asylum despite having no grounds, because your average waiting time on such an application is around three years. If that’s knocked back, they just appeal it again so they can spend more time making money in Australia.
“The number of foreign students on bridging visas has blown out from 13,000 to more than 107,000 in just three years. The system is being scammed, and universities addicted to foreign student money are part of the problem. It’s no coincidence many universities based elsewhere have campuses and shop fronts in Sydney where most foreign students want to end up. For what reason does Central Queensland University – which in 2023 recorded a 57.2% first-year dropout rate among foreign students – have a campus in Sydney if not to grab a slice of the foreign student windfall?
“It’s another example of why Australian universities must be broken of their addiction to foreign students and be forced to prioritise education for Australians.”
Senator Hanson said One Nation’s policy would ensure foreign students who drop out of courses would not receive bridging visas to remain and work in Australia, and would not be able to lodge appeals with the Australian Review Tribunal (ART).
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I can't remember, did Albanese condemn Payman’s ugly personal attacks on Hanson?
Or is calling a member of parliament a “disgrace to the human race” perfectly fine by him?
This is all very confusing!
The Reserve Bank has secretly admitted what everyone already knows - mass migration is making the housing crisis worse and the government is doing nothing about it.
It's very simple - just pull the migration lever!
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared today: “You won’t hear me draw a distinction between Australians and migrants.”
So I guess our Prime Minister just doesn’t believe in the existence of Australia as a country.
🚨 Illegal Sikh immigrant who raped woman with Downsyndrome and sexually assaulted two nurses can’t be deported as he won’t sign the paperwork.
Harjit Singh, 48, who has been in the UK for 19 years, is unwilling to co-operate with a Home Office bid to arrange emergency travel documents to get him flown out.
Officials are unable to resort to tougher measures and will have to turn to the Indian embassy for help, an immigration hearing was told.
Restore Britain would give you the option to either immidately DEPORT or a choice to bring back the death penalty for scum like this.
You know what to do.
I appeal to Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood to release footage from Vikrum Digwa's mobile phone in which he recorded the dying and bleeding Henry Nowak for a full 5 minutes instead of calling an ambulance.
Good morning Australia,
Don’t forget when Declan Cutler was set upon by a group of 8 African gang members.
He suffered 152 injuries, 56 stab wounds and 66 force wounds.
He was an innocent 16 year old boy, slaughtered by Africans in the streets of Melbourne for being white.
The evil LABOR Government have cut NDIS funding from real Australians that genuinely need support but give NDIS to newly arrived immigrants & foreign criminals.
The LABOR government also refuse to investigate the BILLIONS of OUR money that is going to Foreign FRAUD every year.
Everyday Aussies even did the Governments job for them & tracked down many foreign scammers but LABOR would rather funnel OUR tax money to them than support real Australians.
Why do Aussies tolerate this?
@karlstefanovic
Hindus have been given $500,000 in taxpayer funding to build a new cultural precinct on the Gold Coast.
The money was handed out as part of the state government's $5m Multicultural Connect Grants Program.
https://t.co/OI6C5rj2Zm
Wait …Annika Wells still refuses to justify her flights to US and Paris for family reunions which cost us $94,000 and she still has a job
Absolutely mad !
🇬🇧 | ¡DEMENTE TOTAL!
El abogado Sij, Bobby Singh, dijo que apoya al asesino de Henry Nowak, Vickrum Digwa, porque también es Sij bautizado, dice que Gran Bretaña es un "país bastardo", llamó a otros Sijs a ATENTAR contra los británicos patriotas, y que deben ACABAR con Tommy Robinson, principal figura de derecha en UK.
¿Los británicos dejarán que este sujeto hable de esa manera contra su pais?.
An African has stabbed 6 people in an attack inside New York’s Penn Station on June 7, 2026, around 7 PM.
The suspect was taken into custody shortly after.
What the hell is going on this week?
There have been so many horrific incidents across the West this week..
An African was trying to cut off a White mans head in the middle of the street in Ireland earlier.
Multiple violent murders & attacks in Australia too & all across the West.
Why are we tolerating this?
We deserve to life in peace & we deserve to feel safe.
Enough is enough.
6 Foreign teens arrested at Flinders Street in HELLbourne, Vic last night with 6 machetes.
We will never know peace again in Australia without Remigration.
Remigration is the ONLY peaceful solution.
An African has been caught on camera trying to behead a White man with a knife in the street in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Three hero bystanders rushed in to help before police arrived.
White kid gang bashed on a train by Africans.
This can’t continue.
We can’t keep tolerating this.
So many White people are afraid to even leave the house now.
WE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS
🚨 BREAKING: The RBA just blew the lid off Anthony Albanese’s housing scam.
Secret documents prepared by bank experts for the May board meeting reveal the truth Albo didn’t want you to see:
Labor’s first term housing policy did nothing to boost supply.
Worse?
They actually DROVE UP prices.
While Australians are locked out of the market, the RBA notes Albo refused to touch the main lever causing the crisis: his reckless migration policy.
It wasn’t an accident.
It’s economic sabotage.
Flinders Street machete wars AGAIN last night, youths brawling with blades while Victorians dodge danger in their own CBD.
Jacinta Allan’s big solutions? $13M machete surrender bins that failed + ‘tough’ bail laws that put these thugs straight back on the streets.
No wonder Victorians are fed up. 😡