CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior government that is australian said Wednesday that rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, could be refused a visa due to antisemitic comments if he attempts to visit Australia.
Education Minister Jason Clare was responding to media reports that the U.S. celebrity intends to visit the family of new partner that is australian Censori in Melbourne a few weeks.
Clare said he failed to determine if Ye had sent applications for a visa but that Australia has previously refused them to people who have antisemitic views.
“I expect that he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions” as others who’ve aired such views, Clare told Nine Network television.
Last if he does apply month, Ye praised Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter later suspended Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David.
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Australia’s Migration Act sets character and security requirements for non-citizens to go into the country. Any decision on whether Ye gets an visa that is australian be made by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, whose office said he could not comment on individual cases due to privacy reasons.
Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, met government officials on Tuesday to argue for an entry ban.
“We had a hearing that is sympathetic” Wertheim said on Sky News. “We’ve made the actual situation that this kind of individual will not meet with the character make sure him a visa and we set out our reasons in some detail.”
Opposition that it would be in the national interest not to grant leader Peter Dutton said he would be inclined to bar Ye on character grounds.
“My if he were in government inclination will be to not ever allow him in,” Dutton told Melbourne’s Radio 3AW on
“His tuesday antisemitic comments are disgraceful, his conduct and his behavior is appalling, and he’s not a person of good character,” Dutton added.Associated PressYe and Censori intend to visit her family who live in the northeast Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe week that is next Seven Network News reported.
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