Fact check: are international students making it harder to find a place to rent as Dutton claims?
Source: The Guardian | Published: April 6, 2025, 2:16 a.m.
Just 4% of Australia’s rental properties, or less than one in 20, are occupied by international students, the property council says
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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.
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