“There’ll be many students who’ll be caught between a rock and a hard place,” Mr Morrison told reporters in Canberra.
“It addition ... there’ll be a lot of pressure on those colleges [catering to overseas students] and I suspect many will fail.
“That will obviously have impacts for jobs.”
Australia’s reputation as a destination for skilled migration could be jeopardized as a result, he said.
He urged the government to ensure that two-thirds of Australia’s migration program came from the skilled workforce.
“It’s important skilled migration remain the dominant component of our migration intake because it ... contributes to the economy, that pays the taxes, that pays for the hospitals and the roads and the services,” he said.
- Migration U-turn: ‘caught between a rock and a hard place’, The Sidney Morning Herald, February 8, 2010.
2. The Obama team was caught Wednesday between a rock and a hard place as it tried to navigate between key allies Israel and Turkey following an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish ship, analysts said.
U.S.-Turkish ties have already come under strain over Ankara’s diplomacy with Iran and risk further friction over the deadly commando raid Monday on a Turkish-flagged ship carrying aid to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, analysts said.
The clash on the high seas — which came after Turkey backed the six-ship aid flotilla in defiance of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza — points up Turkey’s growing bid to set its own course in the Middle East, they added.
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