Commentary
The Albanese Government’s decision to play politics with Donald Trump Jr.’s visa is not just a vicious attack on free speech. It’s a diplomatic faux pas of the highest order.
Perhaps obviously, there is no conceivable excuse for why Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil did not expeditiously process Mr. Trump’s application.
Standard practise mandates that the entertainment visa Mr. Trump applied for—the Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408)—be issued within about three weeks of the applicant’s submission or rejected with qualification. Mr. Trump submitted his application in mid-May but heard nothing.
He was still hearing nothing until journalist Sharri Markson, having only raised the matter five minutes earlier, received a communique on live television from the Department of Home Affairs confirming that the minister would, in fact, grant Mr. Trump’s visa….
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