Just when you think the international student scam can’t get any worse, it does. This time with data from the University of Sydney on its food bank service showing that foreign students now make up 93% of users:
“University free food services say they are busier than ever, as students choose between paying rent or purchasing groceries.
Demand for the University of Sydney’s student-run food welfare service, FoodHub, which offers free food and essential items such as toiletries, rose 60 per cent in the past year, with international students making up 93 per cent of the 57,000 students who used the service in 2024.
International students have also driven demand at UNSW’s student-run free food service, which feeds 1500 students each week, up from 150 when it opened in May 2020. In July, Western Sydney University started a service after a student survey found 50 per cent were food insecure.”
This is typical disingenuous framing from corporate media giant Nine. painting these students as victims with no agency, rather than willing participants in the foreign education scam that is nothing more than a long-term permanent residency play.
This has been going on a long time in Canada with some charities now outright refusing to serve students while Indians are blatantly making videos showing their countrymen how to scam the system:
This is what happens when your formerly high trust, homogenous nation is turned into an economic zone. These foreigners just see our nation as a medium for financial transactions, and our shrinking middle class as tax cattle to extract value from.
Australians are now not only paying to subsidise these parasites through record rental vacancies, wage stagnation and disintegrating social cohesion, we’re now expected to feed them for free as well.
International students are required by law to demonstrate that they have enough funds to support themselves to study in Australia, for at least the first 12 months.
The fact that they are allowed to work for 48 hours a fortnight, or indeed at all, already proves that they can’t support themselves and makes this visa requirement completely redundant.
There is also a high level of fraud in displaying adequate funds to Home Affairs. A common scam is to transfer money into a bank account to show Home Affairs they have money, and then transfer it straight out once the visa is granted.
The work requirement appears to not be enforced anyway, making the whole thing a complete pantomime for slave labour for the ASX100 and the Business Council of Australia’s share portfolios.
Student visas need to end completely and these “students” needs to be remigrated. Anything less is a waste of time.
Header image: Left, right, students at the University of NSW Food Hub (UNSW)
