De facto ambassador to Australia says opposition leader’s commentary ‘not evidence based, not verified and unacceptable’
Peter Dutton said Australia should temporarily pause Gaza visa approvals ‘just until the security situation stabilises and the government can assure Australians proper checks are being undertaken’.Peter Dutton said Australia should temporarily pause Gaza visa approvals ‘just until the security situation stabilises and the government can assure Australians proper checks are being undertaken’.
Abdulhadi called on the new home affairs minister, Tony Burke, to provide certainty to people who have fled Israel’s military assault on Gaza in response to the 7 October Hamas attacks. He and his Coalition colleagues have since used parliamentary question time to prosecute the government over its processes to issue visas to “people from the terrorist-controlled Gaza war zone”.In an op-ed in the News Corp tabloids on Sunday, Dutton argued there was “a real possibility the Albanese government has allowed Hamas sympathisers and antisemites into our country by failing to conduct necessary checks”.
The Australian government had also used a “very restrictive visa-issuing process” with strict definitions of close family members, so it had become “really difficult” to bring anybody from Gaza, Abdulhadi said.
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