Right-wing influencer Candace Owens has followed Kanye West in being refused entry to Australia after a court upheld a decision that her record failed a “character test” under local laws. In October 2024, Owens was rejected for a visa to conduct a speaking tour. She appealed to the country’s High Court, where judges Stephen Gageler, Michelle Gordon, and Robert Beech-Jones rejected her application. They said the implied freedom of political communication “is not a ‘personal right,’ is not unlimited and is not absolute,” reported Reuters. Justice James Edelman added in a separate ruling, “Ms Owens Farmer’s submissions should be emphatically rejected.” Owens was also ordered to pay the government’s legal costs. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who had first rejected Owens’ application in Oct

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