The Bureau of Stats reports 28 000 or so international students arrived in December way up on the 230 (no zeros missing) who did in December ’20.

Which is good – but not compared to 2019. Last year was down 24.7 per cent on December ‘19.

Nearly 22 000 of last December’s arrivals were HE undergraduates – there were 1760 PG researchers.

Over two-thirds of the December ‘21 student arrivals landed in Sydney with Victoria accounting for most of the rest. Somehow, 130 made it into WA.