Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The third point is that there was a pandemic. In areas such as education, which is a great asset to Australia, a great export that we have, our largest services export, we used to have, say, 100,000 students come in and 100,000 students finish their university degree and then leave. Because of the pandemic, we've had people coming but not going yet. Hence, you have a spike in numbers there.

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