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[unclear: Overeas] students are always the first group [unclear: vernment] pressure, being a small, [unclear: vul-cction] of the student population. But [unclear: lic] warned, attacks on overseas [unclear: stu-] merely the thin end of the wedge. In Britain when these discriminatory fees were introduced, a huge uproar was raised by local as well as overseas students. The Government, in a move of such convolved logic that every-one was struck speechless, quelled cries of discrimination by increasing fees for all students to the same high level. There's a lesson in there for New Zealanders, and you don't have to be an Einstein to find it.