{"id":61306,"date":"2026-09-17T04:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61306"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:04:00","slug":"australia-to-bar-foreign-students-from-bringing-partners-children-while-they-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61306","title":{"rendered":"Australia to bar foreign students from bringing partners, children while they study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SYDNEY, Sept 17- Australia will stop foreign students from bringing their partners and children to accompany them while they study and tighten rules for temporary migrants \u200bto switch visas, media reported on Thursday, ahead of a minister’s \u200cspeech on immigration changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net overseas migration numbers will be reduced to 225,000 by 2028, down from about 300,000 now, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will say in a speech at \u200bthe National Press Club later on Thursday, public broadcaster ABC News \u200breported, without citing sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burke’s office did not immediately respond to a \u2060request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At present, spouses and partners of international students can work \u200bin Australia, although the number of hours they are permitted to work varies \u200bdepending on the student’s course of study. The student can also bring dependent children under the age of 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government’s move comes after the hard-right One Nation party, which has been \u200bsurging in recent polls, said this week that it would slash the \u200bnumber of temporary migrants by 750,000 over three years, to give Australians “breathing space.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Nation, which describes \u200cits \u2060approach as “Australia first” and whose policies have drawn comparisons to those of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>, said it would aim to restrict net overseas migration to 130,000 after the initial three years, with the program expected to be reviewed annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia’s migration \u200bintake, driven largely \u200bby international students, \u2060backpackers and temporary skilled workers, surged after the country reopened its borders in February 2022 following nearly two years of \u200bCOVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, numbers have been trending lower over the past \u200btwo years, \u2060even as critics argue the influx of migrants has increased pressure on housing and infrastructure and strained social cohesion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net overseas migration totalled 306,000 in the year ended \u2060June \u200b30, 2025, with international students accounting for more \u200bthan half of that total, according to official data. Net migration was 429,000 in 2024, after peaking \u200bat 518,000 in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) SYDNEY, Sept 17- Australia will stop foreign students from bringing their partners and children to accompany them while they study and tighten rules for temporary migrants \u200bto switch visas, media reported on Thursday, ahead of a minister’s \u200cspeech on immigration changes. Net overseas migration numbers will be reduced to 225,000 by 2028, down from about 300,000 now, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will say in a speech at \u200bthe National Press Club later on Thursday, public broadcaster ABC News \u200breported, without citing sources. Burke’s office did not immediately respond to a \u2060request for comment. At present, spouses and partners… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61308,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions\/61308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}