Australia wears Candace Owens

Published 29 October 2024 at 10.46

Foreign. American conservative commentator Candace Owens has been denied a visa to Australia ahead of her planned November lecture tour.

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The decision is confirmed by the country's Migration Minister Tony Burke, who says Candace Owens' presence is not in “Australia's national interest”, ABC reports.

He states that Owens has “the ability to provoke dissent from almost any direction”.

Candace Owens has almost 3 million followers on YouTube and caused quite a stir earlier this year when she left the media company Daily Wire and began speaking out anti-Semitic.

In July, she described stories about Nazi experiments on twins during World War II as “completely absurd” and “bizarre propaganda”.

The tour, which was marketed as “provocative ” and promising an insight into “alternative perspectives”, would include events in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Jewish organization Anti-Defamation Commission which campaigned against Owen's visa, hailing the decision as “a victory for the truth” and pointing out that Australia “has no place for those who mock the memory of the victims of the Holocaust”.