PoliticsAustralia to restrict student, backpacker visas in migration clampdown

Australia will tighten visa rules for foreign students, backpackers and working holiday-makers to slow migration and ease housing pressure, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said. Students will be barred from bringing partners and children, while authorities will toughen enforcement against overstayers and curb temporary “visa hopping.”

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