Anti-Trans Anti-Semite Candace Owens barred from Australia

"Australia's national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else."

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A US Commentator known for claiming the French President’s wife was a transgender woman, has been barred from entering Australia.

Former Daily Wire host Candace Owens was due to enter Australia in November for her speaking tour, however the Home Affairs Minister has since confirmed her visa has been denied. Ticketek’s website still sells tickets for $95 to the “Candace Owens LIVE” tour in various cities across Australia.

"Australia's national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else."
Minister Tony Burke

The Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke, cancelled Owens’ visa on the grounds that she planned to incite discord.

"Australia's national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else." the Minister was quoted saying.

Candace Owens made headlines in 2022 when she openly advocated for discrimination against transgender people on the basis that she believes society would be better if we were not embraced.

She is also known for comments denying the severity of the Holocaust, calling established facts such as Dr Josef Mengele’s horrific torture of prisoners held by the Nazis “bizarre propaganda”.

Chairman Dvir Abramovich of Anti-Defamation Commission, a pro-jewish group, told the ABC, “Australia has no place for those who mock the suffering of genocide survivors and insult the memories of the 6 million Jews who perished,"