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Q: Do you agree that no Palestinian should be granted a visa? Jane Hume: Our concern is the appropriate security checks simply are unable to be done right now and the evidence that we have heard in Senate Estimates was that some of the security checks took less than an hour. That is a real concern. Government have confirmed that they issued visas to people fleeing Gaza, that then had to be revoked afterwards. Clearly, security checks are not being done appropriately.
We want to make sure that the safeguards that are in place so we can help people that are fleeing a war zone, as we have done for decades. We did it with Syria and after the evacuation of Kabul in Afghanistan but this is important, our first priority must be keeping Australians safe. Q: You don’t think the national security agencies are doing their jobs properly? Hume: They are doing the job that they can with the tools that they have. They can only respond to government policy.
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