Master's Coursework - Monash/Self sourced internships

I am an attending masters student(coursework instead of research). I have heard that during your last semester if you still choose coursework- you will be made to do like a FIT project-based internship with one of the Monash's industry partners, you work along with your team and sit in Woodside building the whole semester without getting a workplace/culture exchange with your host company and neither do you get paid for the internship. My question is: IS MONASH SOURCED INTERNSHIPS WORTH IT? since you don't get to work with these companies(getting a full time convert is next to impossible) because of small-size of these industry partners (reluctant to take on international students, due to visa liability)

OR

Should you try self sourced internship during your coursework unit ? most of the companies that are ready to offer it to Monash students, ask if it's for a course unit,(so they can get unpaid work out of you), this is coming from people who have years of overseas work experience, working for FREE.

Can someone share their experience ? Am missing something here ?