“All Australian international education providers agree, the best place to study in the world is Australia!”  the education minister, via Twitter yesterday

He is encouraging international students to study here, “the best way that you can help Australia recover from the bushfires is to come to Australia to study.”

Good-o, but donating a few yuan to save koalas is a one thing, investing a million of them in an Australian degree entirely another. But then again, international students may not be the minister’s immediate market, which is more likely export education lobbyists demanding he do something.