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The Australianの記事、'Student visa cuts to cost jobs, say universities' by Patricia Karvelas and Sid Maherから。

'UNIVERSITIES have called on Tony Abbott to scrap his plan to cut international student visa numbers.

They have warned that such a move could cripple the nation's fourth largest export market and lead to massive job losses.

And business has condemned the Opposition Leader's planned cuts to immigration levels, saying he is "pitching to short-term self-interest".

Labor accused Mr Abbott of "a sneaky political trick", claiming he had added up the projected cuts in net overseas immigration arising from existing government policy, and claimed them as his own.

The announcement of the Coalition's plan to cut international student visa numbers comes as a senior delegation from Universities Australia led by Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, is due to meet Department of Immigration officials in Canberra today. The delegation will ask for a change in policy to allow overseas students who come to do a degree to be given the chance to work here for two to three years and then return home.

Mr Abbott announced yesterday that a Coalition government would cut the nation's annual rate of net overseas immigration to no more than 170,000 people a year by the end of the next parliamentary term.

The Coalition policy would reduce Australia's annual rate of population growth from more than 2 per cent to the historical long-run average of 1.4 per cent within its first term.

Given that employer-nominated skills migration and 457 temporary business visa numbers would be quarantined from the policy, the most likely cuts would be to overseas student numbers, which Mr Abbott said represented "the largest contributor to net overseas migration"'.