Universities propose foreign students plan as unemployment rises

Highlights

• Prime Minister Scott Morrison is itching to unlock interstate travel as new figures show border closures are costing nearly 5000 jobs a week and $84 million a day.
• Australia's unemployment rose to 7.1 per cent in May as another 227,000 people lost their jobs.
• The worst unemployment rate since October 2001 comes as the government plans to fly in hundreds of foreign university students next month.