Fact check: are Australias international students making it harder to find a rental property as Peter Dutton claims?

Peter Dutton claims cutting at least 80,000 new international students from Australian higher education institutions will make it easier for you to find a rental property, saying Labor’s high migration intake has fuelled the housing crisis. It would mean space for 115,000 at publicly funded universities and up to 125,000 overseas students in VET sector (such as Tafe), private universities (including the Gold Coast’s Bond University and Melbourne Business School) and non-university higher education providers. Together, the Coalition’s policy would mean 240,000 international students a year could study in Australia. It’s actually not that different from a proposed policy Labor

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