{"id":604155,"date":"2026-04-13T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:33:08","slug":"tourists-to-australia-would-have-social-media-accounts-vetted-under-trumpian-coalition-plan-australian-immigration-and-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604155\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan | Australian immigration and asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Coalition government would end Australia\u2019s non-discriminatory immigration program and introduce Trump-style social media vetting for visa applicants, as Angus Taylor<\/a> accuses Labor of allowing migrants of \u201csubversive intent\u201d into the country.<\/p>\n

As the opposition loses support to Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation, Taylor says too many people seek to use Australia\u2019s generosity \u201cfor self-serving purposes\u201d, promising to speed up rejections of asylum seekers from countries deemed safe to return to.<\/p>\n

Providing the first detail of the Coalition\u2019s new hardline immigration policy, Taylor will use a speech at the Menzies Institute on Tuesday night to pledge new funding for law enforcement agencies to track down, arrest and deport non-citizens who have exhausted their legal appeals to stay in the country.<\/p>\n

Anyone applying for a visa, including tourists, would have to submit their social media accounts for tough vetting, like rules put in place by US President Donald Trump in December.<\/p>\n

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The details of the policy, which go further than a plan leaked at the height of moves to roll former opposition leader Sussan Ley<\/a>, include reassessing more than 2,000 Palestinians issued visas after the 7 October terror attacks and the war with Hamas.<\/p>\n

Taylor will say Australia has for too long \u201cturned a blind eye to a reality of immigration and integration\u201d and claim \u201cAustralians are fed up with politically correct preaching\u201d on overseas arrivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who migrate from liberal democracies have a greater likelihood of subscribing to Australian values compared to those migrating from places ruled by fundamentalists, extremists and dictators,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that vein, the cohort of Gazans let into Australia following the 7 October attacks present a clear risk to our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come to our country from a society run by the barbaric Islamist terrorist organisation of Hamas \u2013 an organisation that has sought to indoctrinate and radicalise their entire population to accept fanatical violence as normal, especially the genocidal slaughter of Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the group already undergoing vetting by Asio and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Taylor says they must be \u201cre-assessed entirely with far greater scrutiny\u201d.<\/p>\n

The policy would also make compliance with the government\u2019s Australian values statement a binding requirement for visa holders, including prescribing behaviours that would constitute breaches of the rules.<\/p>\n

Anyone failing to uphold values outlined in the statement \u2013 including respect for the rule of law, tolerance and compassion, equal opportunity and English as the national language \u2013 would face removal from the country.<\/p>\n

A new \u201csafe country list\u201d would be introduced, to fast-track refusals for asylum claims from countries deemed safe to return to. The list would be based on a similar list used by UK authorities and would be administered by the Home Affairs Department.<\/p>\n

Controversial temporary protection visas \u2013 abolished by Labor in 2023 \u2013 would be restored, and legal aid funding for visa holders would be restricted.<\/p>\n

Non-citizens would also have to wait longer to access social security support under the plan.<\/p>\n

A Taylor government would establish new enhanced screening coordination within Home Affairs, and better integrate intelligence and enforcement capabilities from Asio, the federal police and Border Force.<\/p>\n

Taylor will use the speech to make the case for a policy that can \u201cdiscriminate based on values.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur nation has paid the price for believing that anyone, from anywhere, will embrace our way of life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everyone wanting to migrate to Australia has a noble intent. Not everyone wanting to migrate to Australia will be a net benefit to Australia \u2013 indeed, many will be a net drain.\u201d<\/p>\n

He blames migrants for the \u201cerosion of national culture and the Balkanisation of communities\u201d around the country,<\/p>\n

Liberal and Nationals hardliners will like the policy, but it could further alienate multicultural communities the Coalition has lost in recent elections and further marginalise moderate MPs representing diverse electorates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to take back control from the technocrats, bureaucrats and activists,\u201d Taylor says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to tolerate overstayers who refuse to hop off the appeals merry-go-round despite being told they have no legal right to stay in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor is expected to announce more details of the policy in coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coalition government would end Australia\u2019s non-discriminatory immigration program and introduce Trump-style social media vetting for visa applicants,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-604155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}