{"id":5839,"date":"2020-04-04T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:23:19","slug":"international-students-abandoned-in-heartless-visa-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/international-students-abandoned-in-heartless-visa-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"International Students Abandoned In Heartless Visa Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that the federal government has abandoned international students to the risk of poverty and homelessness. Today the government confirmed it would provide no financial support for international student visa holders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Faruqi has called for income support for international students during the COVID-19 crisis.<br \/>\n<em>Senator Faruqi said:<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cIn this pandemic, international students have lost their jobs, found themselves unable to pay rent or put food on the table, and face living in squalid conditions.<br \/>\n\u201cHundreds of international students have contacted me over the last few days to share their stories of unemployment, financial stress and precarious living situations.<br \/>\n\u201cNow, the government has confirmed they will not lift a finger to support these hundreds of thousands of students who we welcomed into our country and whose fees and work we&#8217;ve all benefited from.<br \/>\n\u201cInternational students contribute enormously to the Australian community. But the government has abandoned them completely.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government must extend the Coronavirus Supplement to international students and make JobKeeper payments available to them as well.<br \/>\n\u201cMinister Tudge says students should look to family support to get them through this. But many of these students come from countries also severely impacted by the pandemic, where lockdowns and health crises have resulted in business closures and losses of income. Family support can no longer be relied upon.<br \/>\n\u201cIf we truly are all in this together, then the \u2018all\u2019 must include international students in strife.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are at risk of a serious humanitarian crisis if the government does not step in and support international students as a matter of urgency,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that the federal government has abandoned international students to the risk of poverty and homelessness. Today the government confirmed it would provide no financial support for international student visa holders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Faruqi has called for income support for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/international-students-abandoned-in-heartless-visa-announcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Students Abandoned In Heartless Visa Announcement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}