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International students have arrived in Australia for the first time since the country shut its borders to curb coronavirus in March, with a charter flight touching down in Darwin on Monday.<\/p>\n


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Australian universities have been leaking cash due to the country’s indefinite border closure, which has locked out foreign students who keep the billion-dollar sector afloat.<\/p>\n

A plane chartered by Charles Darwin University (CDU) carrying 63 international students arrived in the northern city of Darwin as part of a pilot programme aimed at kickstarting the higher education industry.<\/p>\n

The students\u2014from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia\u2014travel<\/a>led to Singapore to catch the flight and will now spend 14 days in a government quarantine facility.<\/p>\n

The mix of new and continuing students are enrolled across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including law, nursing and engineering.<\/p>\n

In a statement, CDU said it was “an important first step in the recovery of the international education sector in Australia”.<\/p>\n

Education is listed as Australia’s fourth-largest export\u2014behind iron ore, coal and natural gas\u2014with more than 500,000 international students enrolled last year, bringing about Aus$37 billion into the economy.<\/p>\n

Lobby group Universities Australia said in June that the sector could lose US$11 billion as a result of the border closure.<\/p>\n

Universities\u2014which as public institutions were omitted from a government coronavirus wage subsidy scheme\u2014have been shedding thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n

Similar proposals by universities in Canberra and Adelaide were previously scrapp<\/a>ed, as the government came under pressure to reserve places in quarantine facilities for Australians stranded overseas.<\/p>\n

Policies limiting the number of returnees have left more than 35,000 Australian citizens stuck abroad, despite government promises to bring them home by Christmas.<\/p>\n

Many international students also remain stuck in Australia, and some are relying on charities for food handouts after they were excluded from support packages.<\/p>\n\n

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