Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has begun her four-day trip to India by spruiking Victoria as a prime location for international students. The government is concerned an impending cap on foreign students could cost the state billions and is hoping the premier's visit can mitigate the damage. Ms Allan's India trip comes as Labor faces more headaches at home.
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00:00Touchdown in the Indian capital.
00:05It was a very comfortable, smooth flight.
00:07The Premier has four days in Delhi to sell the education state.
00:12We are home to so many Indian students who choose to come and study at one of Victoria's world-class education institutions.
00:20But Victoria now has a monkey on its back in the form of international student caps.
00:26The Federal Government hopes to impose them by next year.
00:29I'm yet to have meetings with representatives of the Indian Government.
00:33I will be over the course of this week.
00:35And I will be making it clear in those discussions that Victoria remains a welcoming place, regardless of what the Federal Government is doing.
00:43The Premier says Victoria's relationship with India is worth over $3 billion.
00:48But there's more money to be made outside of the education sector.
00:53My focus over the course of this visit will be on strengthening those areas with a further focus on film, culture, sport, technology.
01:03Back home and the Government continues to deal with issues arising from the state's construction sector.
01:09A report into the CFMEU has found that the union is awash with criminals and attempts to clean itself up have been insufficient.
01:18Labor's big build is rotten with bikeys still on the major projects here in Victoria.
01:25Geoffrey Watson SC's report was commissioned by the CFMEU and found that motorcycle gangs were still influential in the union,
01:33violence was accepted as part of its culture and pay negotiations had become vulnerable to corruption.
01:40Our Government has zero tolerance for this rotten behaviour, this rotten culture does need to be pulled out.
01:46It's an action-packed start to the Premier's first official trip abroad.