Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke labelled Dutton’s comments “outrageous” while Rasha Abbas, who directs the agency assisting Palestinians fleeing the war, said just one family from Gaza had been given permanent visas on serious humanitarian grounds, but not offered citizenship. The rest are on temporary visas.
“This is not true. It’s all untruth,” Abbas said of Dutton’s claims. “There are laws around these things. There has been no citizenship granted to any of the Palestinians. There has been no change to the citizenship process. There is no bypassing of any security checks, they are done multiple times. Why are we singling out Palestinians?”