Home affairs minister says he will cancel visas of people waving Hezbollah flags at rallies if they are not Australian citizens
Protesters march during a pro-Palestine rally for Gaza and Lebanon in Melbourne on Sunday. Some marchers carried Hezbollah flags and portraits of leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli attack.Protesters march during a pro-Palestine rally for Gaza and Lebanon in Melbourne on Sunday. Some marchers carried Hezbollah flags and portraits of leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli attack.
“With Peter Dutton, it remains the case that no matter how many times our security agencies say we need to lower the temperature in Australia, he wants to raise the temperature every single time.” Hezbollah is proscribed as a listed terrorist organisation under federal law. It is illegal to provide support, to be a member of, or associate with a listed terrorist organisation.opposition had demanded visas be cancelled for any non-citizens involved in those actions. Burke on Monday said “any indication of support for a terrorist organisation is unequivocally condemned”.
Burke said he was unable to comment directly on the incident, citing potential legal processes, but said he was strongly against “inciting discord and hatred in Australia”, and had asked his department to prepare briefs on whether visas would be cancelled.
Majed Kheir, a Sydney lawyer and community volunteer, said there were likely a number of people who attended the protests that would have held negative views of Hezbollah and Nasrallah. “We understood why this legislation was important but we also didn’t want the government to inadvertently criminalise things that were holy to our faith,” he said.
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