TheKanye Westbacklash over his antisemitic remarks could be the reason he is denied entry into Australia.Sky Newsreported that the rapper was planning a trip Down Under to visit his partners family.
People like that whove applied for visas to get into Australia in the past have been rejected, Minister for Education Jason Clare told Channel Nine in an interview.
I expect that if he does apply he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions that they did.
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Despite being unbanned on Twitter by Elon Musk,West was banned againafter he tweeted an image with a swastika inside a Star of David.
On Tuesday, the co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim, said officials had a sympathetic hearing about barring West from entering Australia.
Weve made the case that this particular individual does not meet the character test and that it would be in the national interest not to grant him a visa and we set out our reasons in some detail in that letter, Wertheim said.
