Mike Burgess, the head of Asio, said on Sunday, that rhetorical support for Hamas would not necessarily preclude a Palestinian from an Australian visa. Follow the day’s news liveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDutton: ‘We should stop people coming in from a war zone’Is it all refugees Peter Dutton wants to stop?We should stop people coming in from a war zone. So that’s that’s what we should do. Because we don’t know if the proper checks haven’t been done. The 1% or whatever it might be who pose a threat.You bring 3,000 people in, let’s say 99% are good. If 1%, 30 people are questionable or sympathisers with … a listed terrorist organisation, how on earth is that in our country’s best interests?There are processes in place and I can assure your audience that when things get referred to Asio we deal with them effectively.Of course there might be times when they didn’t get referred to us in time. Once we become aware of them, we’re able to do the assessments and deal with them effectively.No, it’s quite, quite the opposite. Asio is fantastic. I appointed Mike Burgess, but Mike can only act according to the policy of the government of the day. It was not our policy in government to bring people in who were sympathisers of a listed terrorist organisation. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-08-15 00:27:09
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