Candace Owens: Australia’s high court backs minister’s decision to deny visa to US rightwinger
Home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character grounds upheld
Australia’s high court has unanimously backed the government’s 2024 decision to refuse the rightwing provocateur Candace Owens a visa to enter the country.
The full bench of the court ruled on Wednesday that the minister’s denial did not infringe an implied constitutional freedom of political communication.
Last October the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, refused Owens’ visa application before a planned national speaking tour, arguing that she had the “capacity to incite discord”.
Burke said at the time the US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric – including allegedly minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps – did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa under the Migration Act.
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Good for Australia. Awesome cunts over there.
Good, stay the fuck out.
Good move from Australia.
So rightwingers think things you say shouldn’t affect status in a country? It’s a good thing that isn’t happening here in the US… oh… wait…
Who wants to bet she'll fly to Australia anyway, be denied, and then make a big thing of it for her griftees?
That sounds like something Australia would do to her because she is exactly the kind of person they always do that to, a crazy person who thinks they aren't crazy and likes to tell people that they should be crazy too.
We're not sending our best
Maybe they just denied her visa because they are afraid of their mental state. I mean, she is a black and MAGA person. Sure signs of having some serious mental defects.