4 Oct 2023

Australia: Foreign student exploitation, bushfires, Voice vote

From Nine To Noon, 9:55 am on 4 October 2023
A firefighter protecting a residential area from bushfires north of Sydney on 7 December, 2019. Experts said the last Australian bushfire season arrived earlier and with more intensity because of climatic changes and prolonged drought.

Warmer weather has seen bushfires flare up in Tasmania and Victoria. (file photo) Photo: AFP

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about a new report that shows Australia has over 650,000 foreign students - a new record. But there are concerns they're being used to prop up universities and end up in low-paid roles.

Bushfire season has begun, with blazes across Victoria and Tasmania and there's just a week and a half to go of voting in the indigenous Voice referendum.