Pro-Palestine speaker’s visa under re view after ‘celebration’ remark

Email Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is reviewing the visa of a US guest speaker who told a pro-Palestine vigil in Western Sydney that October 7 was a cause for “celebration”.

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