'How on Earth is that in our country's best interests?'
Speaking to Today, Dutton confirmed he had made the initial announcement yesterday after speaking with his "national security team", which includes Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie and Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson.Opposition leader Peter Dutton has defended his controversial call on refugees from Gaza.
Australia has granted more than 2600 visas to Palestinians, and rejected a further 4600, since Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, according to Senate Estimates from May.Australia has granted 1300 visas to Palestinian applicants. ASIO director general Mike Burgess says rhetorical support for Hamas is not necessarily a bar to a visa.
However, Dutton said the decision to grant visitor visas to people from a war zone without face to face interviews was "unprecedented"."We should stop people coming in from a war zone ... that's what we should do," he said."Because we don't know if the proper checks haven't been done."
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