Rents in Australia have gone up by 6.3% over the past year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
more international students are taking extreme measures to cut costs – sharing beds with strangers.
She said she splits the rent by sharing a bed with a truck driver, who is also from India. She sleeps in the bed while he works at night, and he uses it during the day while she is at school. “To not have even a peaceful place to sleep and relax while I study feels terrible,” she told SBS News. If the survey is representative of the more than 700,000 international students in Australia in December 2019, it would equate to about 22,750 students hot-bedding, the university said in its report.Before the pandemic, student visa holders could work up to 40 hours a fortnight. But in January 2022, that cap was removed to allow them to fill vacancies that opened up during the pandemic.
According to news.com.au, an international student earning an hourly minimum wage of A$21.38 could earn up to A$1,026.24 per fortnight, based on the 48-hour cap. Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil said visa holders in Australia are “either here as students or they are here as workers”.
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