Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government will be opposing this motion. The data is commercially sensitive and may prejudice an individual education provider's commercial and financial interests as well as their reputation. Releasing information on visa statistics, such as visa refusals, linked to particular education providers may affect their commercial interests by providing insights into the recruitment behaviours and habits of individual education providers that may be of commercial value to competitors and other education sector entities. This is consistent with the Department of Home Affairs policy of not publishing international student enrolment data by an education provider.