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The Refugee Council of Australia has condemned a leaked proposal by the Liberal party to ban migrants from regions controlled by declared terrorist groups, describing the plan as an “appalling idea straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook”.
Details of the leaked plan drafted under Sussan Ley emerged on Monday signalling a hardline approach to immigration as the party hemorrhages votes to One Nation.
Any person applying to visit or migrate to Australia should have their application considered on its own merits. People who have no links to terrorism and are almost certainly suffering as a result of terrorist acts should not be treated as though they are terrorists themselves.
To apply indiscriminate bans in this way would be little more than blind prejudice, prejudging people based on where they are from rather than who they are. The opposition cannot maintain that it is promoting Australian values and then promote a policy which denies the most basic level of fairness to innocent people with a valid and lawful reason for wishing to visit Australia, including family members of Australian citizens and residents.
Frankly, I don’t know what the document is. I don’t know where it’s come from, and I don’t know what’s in it.
That doesn’t mean you necessarily shut the door on those places, but it does mean, you do the work to make sure the people who are coming are not people who are going to threaten our way of life, and bring violence to our country.
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Author : Martin Farrer
Publish date : 2026-02-16 19:58:00
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