Labor to ban agents being paid for poaching international students amid wider crackdown

Home affairs minister, Clare O'Neil, says rorts and loopholes' in sector will be shut down

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Education agents will be banned from receiving commissions for poaching students enrolled in other institutions under a federal government crackdown on the embattled international education sector.

Over the coming days, Labor will announce a host of reforms in response to a review led by former Victoria police chief commissioner Christine Nixon into the exploitation of Australia's visa system.

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