Far-right activist has visa declined ahead of Australian tour

Far-right activist has visa declined ahead of Australian tour
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Far-right activist Lauren Southern has had her visa declined by the Australian government ahead of an upcoming national speaking tour.

Hours before the 23-year-old was due to fly over her Electronic Travel Authority was declined, something Southern cited as one of the many “unprecedented” hurdles the government put up to stop her entering the country, according to news.com.au.

“We’ve been told [by our immigration lawyers] that it’s unprecedented,” she told The Daily Telegraph.

“But I’m not surprised they are dragging out the process. There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower, it’s just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.”

Southern said she applied for a work visa four months ago but kept “waiting and waiting and waiting and they kept sending us new hurdles to jump through.”

The political commentator has previously come under fire for outspoken criticism of radical Islam.

In 2016, she pretended to be trans while reporting on a university rally against a professor’s anti-trans comments, and took to the microphone to defend the professor before being shut down.

And in March this year, she was banned from entering the UK after distributing flyers claiming that Allah was a gay and trans God, before she defended herself by claiming it was part of a social experiment.

On Twitter, she said she was trying to prove Islam to be a homophobic religion by provoking British Muslims.

Southern said her visa being declined set a “very scary precedent for free speech”.

“I have criticised radical Islam, I have criticised the increasing blasphemy laws that are being brought into our societies,” she said.

“You won’t see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam.”

Speaking to Sky News, Cory Bernardi said he suspected “there is a little bit of political interference, because people sometimes don’t like what she has to say”.

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3 responses to “Far-right activist has visa declined ahead of Australian tour”

  1. This absurd little person should never be allowed into Australia.
    He claim that “People are offended by Debate and Free Speech” is total garbage. What people are offended by is the sort of Hate she spouts.
    She pretended to be a trans person so not only is she full of hatred she is also a liar

  2. Good.

    Find it funny when all these morons come out of the woodwork screaming about an ‘Islamic invasion’ and telling people we shouldbe wholesale banning them, or closing down mosques, or that we need to shut down the ‘gay agenda’ … and then say it’s ‘free speech’ when a government turns around and tells them they don’t want to deal with their shit.

    News flash, you’re not an Australian. You hold no Australian visa, permanent or temporary. Ergo, clearly you have no constitutional right to your free speech in Australia. It would require you to actually be allowed to stay here.

    Same way I can’t demand people let me into another country just to hold a protest. Entitled fuckwit.

  3. So much stupidity here.

    Firstly whatever any Christian tries to claim ‘Allah’ is just a word for ‘god’. The Christian, Jewish and Muslim god is the same fictional character. Jesus was Jewish, the founder of Christianity and a prophet in Islam – did he believe he was the son of three separate gods? Of course not. So the “experiment” wasn’t about Islam being homophobic as this idiot wants to claim, it was about religion in general being homophobic (which, in general, it is).

    Secondly, every example of this moron’s activism seems to rely on her lying about stuff to make a point which doesn’t work when you realise she was lying about her circumstances in the first place. If you have to rely on being full of shit to make a point, chances are the point you’re on about is full of shit.

    Free speech has responsibility and this clown lacks that in spades. Good riddance.