Raghav Motani knew he would be paying $70,000 in student fees for his two-year master’s degree in Australia. He knew about the visa processing fees, insurance policy, health coverage and expensive housing – $800 a fortnight.
But when the University of Technology Sydney’s international student officer heard the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, had compared him and his peers to the “modern version of boat arrivals”, he had some questions.
