Candace Owens Loses Legal Fight to Enter Country After Ban For Extremist Views
The highest court in Australia shot down Candace Owens’s attempt to overturn a decision by the government to bar her from entering the country.
Three High Court justices unanimously ruled against Owens and upheld Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s order in 2024 to ban the highly controversial commentator from visiting Australia. Burke denied Owens entry into the country based on character grounds and said she would “incite discord in the Australian community.”
Owens planned on going on a speaking tour in Australia in 2024, but her visa application was rejected. She had argued in her latest court battle that Burke’s decision violated “the implied freedom of political communication.”
Burke accused the far-right activist, who has one of the most popular podcasts in the US, of “extremist and inflammatory comments towards Muslim, Black, Jewish and LGBTQIA+ communities which generate controversy and hatred.”
Owens had also planned on including New Zealand in her speaking tour, and that country briefly banned her from entering the country as well, though that decision was later reversed. The ban was initially based on Australia’s decision against Owens.
“The Minister made his decision after considering representations made to him, including the importance of free speech,” a spokesperson for New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Immigration Chris Penk said about the decision.
Owens’s foreign troubles don’t stop there. The former Daily Wire host is also facing a defamation lawsuit from French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, over her repeated and unfounded accusation that Brigitte Macron “was born a man.”
“These claims are demonstrably false, and Owens knew they were,” the suit states.
Owens vowed to fight the suit and doubled down on her claims about the French president’s wife.
“You are a very goofy man, Brigitte. But I’ve got to give it to you, you’ve definitely got balls,” she stated in response. “Fire everyone around you who said this was a very good idea for you to be the first sitting first lady of a country to file a lawsuit against a journalist in another country.”
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