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Minister reveals Kanye West banned from Australia over ‘Heil Hitler’ song
The Independent
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7/2/2025
Minister reveals Kanye West banned from Australia over ‘Heil Hitler’ song
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There would only be one, the only one that I can think of, where it wasn't for public
00:07
advocacy, the visa, but we cancelled anyway, and that would be Kanye West.
00:13
Right, Kanye West.
00:16
Yep.
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So, he's been coming to Australia for a long time, he's got family here, and he's made
00:24
a lot of offensive comments.
00:26
But my officials looked at it again once he released the Heil Hitler song, and he no
00:32
longer has a valid visa in Australia.
00:34
It wasn't a visa even for the purpose of the concerts, it was a lower level, and the officials
00:39
still looked at the law and said, you're going to have a song and promote that sort of
00:46
narcissism?
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We don't need that in Australia.
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I think that what's not sustainable is to import hatred.
00:54
Like, you know, some people say, oh, don't you believe in freedom of speech?
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And for Australian citizens, yeah, you've got full freedom of speech.
01:02
But we have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.
01:08
And so, there are some visas where people have Islamophobia, and I say no to them.
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But if –
01:18
Well, we didn't have enough qualifications...
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