This is a list of people who have been, or are currently, banned in Australia.[1]
Currently banned
Name | Country of origin | Occupation | Reason banned |
---|---|---|---|
Julian Blanc | Switzerland | Pick up artist | Promoting dangerous and abusive behavior towards women.[2] |
David Icke | United Kingdom | Conspiracy theorist | Comments considered as Holocaust denialism. |
David Irving | United Kingdom | Author and Holocaust denialist | Holocaust denialism.[3][4] |
Gino Jennings | United States | Religious leader | Making homophobic remarks.[5] |
Chelsea Manning | United States | Whistleblower and activist | Criminal record. |
Floyd Mayweather Jr. | United States | Professional boxer | History of domestic violence.[6] |
Gavin McInnes | Canada | Far-right activist and founder of the Proud Boys. | Links to Proud Boys, a white supremacist hate group classified by the FBI as an extremist group. |
Bilal Philips | Canada | Islamic scholar | Alleged links to terrorism and seeming to condone suicide bombers.[7] |
Tommy Robinson | United Kingdom | Far-right activist and co-founder of the English Defence League | Substantial criminal record.[8] |
Bassem Tamimi | Palestine | Activist | Views about ongoing political tensions in the Middle East. |
Milo Yiannopoulos | United Kingdom | Far-right activist | Comments about the Christchurch mosque shootings. |
Previously banned
Name | Country of origin | Occupation | Reason banned | Ban lifted |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Brown | United States | Singer | Domestic violence. | Undecided (ban applied in 2015)[9] |
Peter Chingoka | Zimbabwe | Cricket administrator | Connections to Robert Mugabe.[10] | 2022 (deceased) |
Novak Djokovic | Serbia | Tennis player | Deported on health and good-order grounds as there were concerns his presence would undermine the country's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.[11][12] | 2022 (Originally banned for three years under the Migration Act 1958 but was overturned by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles)[13] |
Dick Gregory | United States | Actor and social critic | Government officials fearing he would "...stir up demonstrations against the Vietnam War."[14] | 2017 (deceased) |
George Lincoln Rockwell | United States | Politician, neo-Nazi | Government concern about neo-Nazi, extremist rhetoric. | 1967 (deceased)[15] |
Snoop Dogg | United States | Rapper | Convictions for drugs and firearms offenses. | 2008 (ban applied in 2007)[16] |
Skepta (Joseph Junior Adenuga) | United Kingdom | Rapper | Punching a man at a nightclub in Melbourne in 2016. | 2019 |
Tyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okanoma) | United States | Rapper | Alleged promotion of violence against women. | 2019 (ban claimed to be in effect around 2015) |
Mike Tyson | United States | Professional boxer | Criminal record, including rape charges.[17] | 2012 (ban applied in 2001); granted a temporary visa.[18] |
Vjekoslav Vrančić | Yugoslavia | High ranked Ustaše officer | Terroristic activities with extreme right wing Argentine political groups.[19] | 1990 (deceased) |
See also
References
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