International students demand concession card

02 September 2009 | 03:55:21 PM | Source: SBS

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International students studying in Australia want travel concessions that are only available to local students.

Hundreds of students gathered in front of Parliament House in Melbourne and Sydney today asking why they had to pay three times as much in fees compared to local students and had no rights to concession cards.

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National Union of Students President David Burrow said that a concession card for international students could help solve part of the problems faced by overseas students.
   
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said NSW and Victoria didn't offer international students public transport concession cards.
   
She wants to see one created for all undergraduate, postgraduate, domestic and foreign students that can be used around the country.
   
"This form of discrimination against students from other countries certainly doesn't do much for fostering the sense of inclusion and welcome that we know is so badly needed."

Senator Hanson-Young will attend a Senate inquiry hearing into the welfare of international students in Sydney on Wednesday.
   
The issue of concession cards for international students had been raised repeatedly during the inquiry, she said.

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15 Oct 2010 1:16 AEST

henri

From: melbourne

lol

Henri.. stop flirting and talking nonsense .. LOL..

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23 May 2010 18:54 AEST

henri

From: grenoble, france

hello

hello where you on Santiago Camino in october 2009

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14 Sep 2009 15:42 AEST

Natasha Borsky

From: Erskineville, Sydney, Australia

Student Concession Cards should be just that, and not contingent upon nationality

International students already need to pay astronomical rates for their courses, that are often of poor quality (check out the shocking international student colleges in CBD sydney... english teachers that are inept), adding salt to the wound (not allowing them student discounts) is purely another cynically driven profit making decision that embarasses me as an Aussie. This is merely an example of the discrimination international students face in modern day Australia. Poor wages is another.

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