Universities Australia is the peak body representing Australia’s 39 comprehensive universities. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to the review of Australia’s migration system.

Universities Australia is the peak body representing Australia’s 39 comprehensive universities. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Trade Sub Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade’s Inquiry into Australia’s tourism and international education sectors. This submission will be responding to the Terms of Reference concerning international education.

As the peak body for Australia’s 39 comprehensive universities, Universities Australia welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Defence Strategic Review 2022 (the review). In this submission, we lay out the role that Australia’s universities currently play, and the various roles they could play in the future of the nation’s defence capability.