Minister reveals Kanye West banned from Australia over ‘Heil Hitler’ song

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00:00There would only be one, the only one that I can think of, where it wasn't for public

00:07advocacy, the visa, but we cancelled anyway, and that would be Kanye West.

00:13Right, Kanye West.

00:16Yep.

00:17So, he's been coming to Australia for a long time, he's got family here, and he's made

00:24a lot of offensive comments.

00:26But my officials looked at it again once he released the Heil Hitler song, and he no

00:32longer has a valid visa in Australia.

00:34It wasn't a visa even for the purpose of the concerts, it was a lower level, and the officials

00:39still looked at the law and said, you're going to have a song and promote that sort of

00:46narcissism?

00:47We don't need that in Australia.

00:49I think that what's not sustainable is to import hatred.

00:54Like, you know, some people say, oh, don't you believe in freedom of speech?

00:58And for Australian citizens, yeah, you've got full freedom of speech.

01:02But we have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.

01:08And so, there are some visas where people have Islamophobia, and I say no to them.

01:13But if –

01:18Well, we didn't have enough qualifications...