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    Iranian visa holders temporarily barred from travelling to Australia

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    1. a_bag_of_meat on

      Any particular reason this is only for Iran and not for Israel or any other invading countries?

    2. Frozefoots on

      So when are you doing this for USA and Israel visa holders?

      You know – since **they were the ones that started the fucking war.**

    4. AdPure5645 on

      This seems odd and therefore I think it’s probably a national security thing. They might’ve got wind of dune Iranian plan to do a bunch of stuff across various countries. Just speculation.

    7. redchairyellowchair on

      This isn’t the point but I thought abc was on strike today? Why is the news website publishing shit?

    9. Thoresus on

      This legislation was being introduced while they were publicly garnishing publicity for granting expedited visa for the Iranian soccer team.

      The government was happy to get the popularity from the public on one hand, while behind closed doors slaming the door shut for so many others in exactly the same position.

      It was grandstanding and the government should be ashamed.

      Also legislation usually takes months for community consultation. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was ready to go months ago, they’ll just waiting for an excuse to implement the new legislation.

    10. Snck_Pck on

      People forget Iran was labelled an enemy of the state a few months ago and actively took part in making plans to attack Australians on Australian soil.

      This is good

    11. thrillho145 on

      Even Tony Abbott and ScoMo let refugees in while their countries were being attacked, from Syria and Afghanistan. This is absolute grub behaviour 

    13. UnlikelyAccount1963 on

      I have a friend at work from Iran who is from the Christian minority. Only the other day, he was saying that he was worried about the war and his status here (he’s got a citizenship application in). While THIS change doesn’t affect him, it highlights the problem of broad brush stroke decisions. Not all Iranians are bad guys.

    14. CookieMuttley on

      How about we look after our own back yard!! Fuck every one else…… yeah yeah 😢

    16. ma77mc on

      They need to apply the same restrictions on the holders of passports issued by United States of America, Israel and Russia as well.

      Any nation that is currently involved in an illegal war.

    17. freedomgeek on

      So we’re telling people they cannot either flee a warzone or a dictatorial regime.

      This government is performing monstrous acts for political points.

    19. CrankyGrumpyWombat on

      Lol some out you only bring up Israelis because you hate Israel.

      The reality is israelis visiting Australia are highly unlikely to claim asylum and stay. Additionally, Israel doesn’t just refuse to take back their citizens, unlike the terrorist regime in Iran.

      We don’t ban israeli citizens from entering the same way we don’t ban americans or Indonesians or Chinese.

    20. death2sarge on

      So they’ll be making an announcement soon on Israelis getting barred entry due to their attack on Iran and Lebanon?

    21. georgeformby42 on

      Hell yeah, why is this not a permanent thing.  Oh that’s right nwo, ” browning” the world etc