I wonder is anyone at all surprised about who ran the boarding house in Brisbane with 37 kids in a 3 bedder ???? did anyone think it would have been a greedy Aussie property investor ???? I guess its a similar situation where the Indian agents were ripping off the Indian students...with dodgy Uni certificates, and similar dodgy accommodation deals.................. no one is being racist.....or are they ??? ripping off the kids of the same nationality.........
Guy Healy and Kim Wilkinson | September 17, 2009 Article from: The Australian A KOREAN education agent has been implicated in the running of a two-storey Brisbane suburban home that was housing up to 37 foreign students.
A raid by Brisbane City Council inspectors uncovered the operation under which a near record number of students were being used to service a $6000-a-month lease to cover the education agents' upstairs home-office.
It is believed that when council raided the quiet suburban property in leafy Sunnybank Hills, in Brisbane's south, they discovered 27 students in the remodelled building, including three Asian girls asleep in a double bed, with beds for a further 10 people.
The latest revelation of extreme overcrowding in overseas student accommodation comes in the wake of similar incidences in Sydney and Melbourne, where one house had 38 students setting a dubious national record.
Cash-strapped foreign students, studying in Australia as part of the $15 billion industry, have complained of being exploited by industry-linked operators - leading to calls for universities and colleges to massively ramp up campus accommodation.
When The Australian visited the Brisbane property yesterday, the Lebanese and Korean university student residents expressed shock the house had a notorious accommodation history.
At the time of the raid in March - revealed yesterday as part of the council's crackdown on illegal accommodation - it is believed most of the residents were students of Asian origin. All of the then residents have since moved.
Griffith University human resources masters student Adel Kassem, 25, of Lebanon, said there was ..........
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