Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser says Australian universities have become too dependant on income from foreign students.
Receiving an honorary doctorate at Monash University in Melbourne last night, Mr Fraser hit out at successive federal governments for failing to properly fund universities.
"Governments don't seem to recognise this," he said.
"At the same time as withdrawing funds from universities, they're trying to interfere more in the way universities are run and what universities are doing. In older days I think we did better," he said.
He also says Australia's immigration policies will discourage students from studying here.
"People overseas know when we behave in inhumane or uncompassionate ways," he said.
"It resonates around the world in a way that does Australia great damage".
"You can easily see how that would flow into the students, if the students have an alternative of going to America or Canada or Britain or whatever."
Courtesy ABC News
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