Candace Owens: Australia’s high court backs minister’s decision to deny visa to US rightwinger (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[-] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

this is sane washing extremism and nazism

she's not right wing or conservative, which are reasonable political philosophies ( even if I do disagree with them ) , she's an extremist hate monger

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

This is not sanewashing Candice appeals to conservatives and right wingers. Don't do the work of disassociating her from them, for them. If the right doesn't want to have her in the tent they should speak out against her and maybe not shovel her cash.

She speaks at republican conventions, and who else would have attended her Australian tour other than right wingers?