COVID-19 Diaries: International Student Crisis

Household items are piled up on the street curb outside former student accomodation, suggesting a hurried and thorough departure.

With universities in partial shutdown, with no flights in or out of Australia, and with service and manual labour jobs drying up, many international students have been forced out of accomodation and work, and into poverty with no way of getting back to their home countries.

The government has yet to provide any support.

Some have turned to charities and street kitchens to survive.

More to come on this story.

Part of an ongoing photographic series, 'COVID-19 Diaries'.

* Click on image for full screen view