Tony Sheldon (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024. I want to take up the first issue. Senator Henderson raised a complaint about ELICOS students and how their numbers are blowing out in net overseas migration. But the reality is that ELICOS students do not contribute to net overseas migration, and there is a good reason for that. They are only in the country for three months. It's another example of how confused the coalition are on this. They don't have a plan on how to deal with the issues that this inquiry and this bill deal with. All they can come up with are misinformation and absolutely basic untruths.