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Overseas
students'
fee 'racist'
SYDNEY: The Government's
plan to charge private overseas
students a fee towards their tuition in
Australia was described as "racist"
yesterday by university student and
staff groups.
The Federation of Australian Univer
sity Staff Associations unanimously op
posed the chargcs at its annual general
meeting in Sydney yesterday.
The national president, Dr Peter
Darvall, said the new chargcs outlined
in the Budget would only revive the bad
associations of the White Australia
policy and would promote a "new isola
tionism" in Australia.
"Most overseas students who study
here are certainly not wealthy by our
standards", he said. "By assisting them
Australia has been generating
enormous goodwill for a comparatively
small outlay".
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