International students locked out of Australia by pandemic switch to UK and US

With Australia's borders all but closed, many young people who long dreamed of an antipodean education are going elsewhere

Sabid Hossain and his three friends knew what university they were going to. They had been planning it, he says, since he was in eighth or ninth grade.

At the end of 2020, they would graduate from their high school in Rangpur in Bangladesh. They would go - all four of them - to the University of Melbourne, more than 9,000km away.