Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Albanese government granted a visa to Fayez Al-Hassani, an individual openly linked to terrorist organisations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In 2019 Al-Hassani reportedly hosted a summit of terror organisation leaders, which he opened by stating they must 'confront the occupation by all possible means'. Prime Minister, has the visa of this individual been cancelled?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is not different to the last one, and the answer is not different to the last one, either. If at any point we receive advice from our security agencies that a visa should be cancelled, that is what will happen. This concept that shadow ministers should be the proxies for our security agencies is just a bizarre way to operate. Our security agencies work through the evidence that they have. They never stop collecting information, even after people are here. And this government stands with full confidence in our security agencies. I'm not sure what the position of the opposition is on that.