Dutton's department denies delaying Chinese student visas for political reasons

Reports link delays to tense relations between over question of covert Chinese Communist party influence in Australia

The Department of Home Affairs, the new “super-ministry” whose minister is Peter Dutton, has strongly rejected claims it is deliberately delaying Chinese student visas, following stories in China’s state-run media and social media that claim the issue is “politically motivated” .

The Global Times story and an article by Australian Red Scarf – a populist, patriotic Chinese-language website popular with Chinese students in Australia – claimed between 100 and 200 Chinese students have been left in limbo while they wait for visas, with some being forced to look elsewhere to study.

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