Kanye West banned from entering Australia due to "Hitler" comments

The entry visa for American singer Kanye West to Australia has been canceled after releasing the song "Hitler".


Interior Minister Tony Burke explained that West used to travel to Australia for years, where his wife Bianca Sensory is from, but the song "Hitler" released last May promotes Nazism.

Burke told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "West has been visiting Australia for a long time. He has family here. He made many derogatory comments that my office officials reconsidered after the release of the song ('Hitler') and he no longer has a valid visa to enter Australia".

The song was released a few months after West posted a series of anti-Semitic posts on the social media platform X, including comments like "I love Hitler" and "I am a Nazi".

Burke stated that while West's previous disturbing comments did not affect his visa status, officials "revisited the matter" after the song was released.

He told the local ABC station: "It was a lower-level visa and yet officials looked at the law and said if you have a song promoting this kind of Nazism, we don't need that in Australia".

He added, "We already have enough problems in this country without deliberately importing bigotry".