Candace Owens' Australian visa has been canceled by Immigration Minister Tony Burke

Extremist US provocateur Candace Owens has had her Australian visa canceled as the Labor government warns her attacks on Jews, Muslims and transgender people have the potential to stoke discord.

Immigration Minister Tony Burke confirmed the Donald Trump-aligned influencer – who has claimed Israel was founded by a “cult” and that “secret Jewish gangs” operate in Hollywood – will not be allowed into Australia as the Labor government seeks to to lower temperatures to domestic protests over the war in the Middle East.

“From trivializing the effects of the Holocaust with comments on [German SS officer Josef] Candace Owens has the ability to stir up discord in almost every direction,” he said.

“Australia’s national interests are best served with Candace Owens elsewhere.”

Owens became famous for her conservative activism. She was communications director for Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019 and moved to a conservative media company in 2021 The Daily Wire to host her own political talk show. However, she was fired in March this year following a series of anti-Semitic comments.

She now runs her own YouTube channel and has 18 million online followers. Owens' comments included describing Mengele's experiments on Auschwitz prisoners as “bizarre propaganda.”

Jewish groups called for Owens' visa to be canceled in August as Burke suggested he would block it, telling this masthead: “Tickets for these events are sold for $100. I hope she has a good refund policy.”

Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan also said in August that Labor should block Owens' visa to prevent the spread of “hateful messages”.

Owens vowed to continue her trip to Australia despite calls for her visa to be rejected.