List of people banned from entering Australia

This is a list of people who have been, or are currently, banned in Australia. ^[1]

Currently banned

Name	Country of origin	Occupation	Reason banned
Julien Blanc	Switzerland United States	Pick up artist	Promoting dangerous and abusive behavior towards women. [2]
David Icke	United Kingdom	Conspiracy theorist	Comments considered as Holocaust denialism.
David Irving		Author and Holocaust denialist	Holocaust denialism. [3] [4]
Gino Jennings	United States	Religious leader	Making homophobic remarks. [5]
Chelsea Manning		Whistleblower and activist	Criminal record. [6]
Floyd Mayweather Jr.		Professional boxer	History of domestic violence. [7]
Gavin McInnes	Canada	Far-right activist and founder of the Proud Boys.	Links to Proud Boys, a white supremacist hate group classified by the FBI as an extremist group.
Candace Owens	United States	Conservative political commentator	Downplaying the Holocaust's impact and according to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, "Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction". [8]
Bilal Philips	Canada	Islamic scholar	Alleged links to terrorism and seeming to condone suicide bombers. [9]
Tommy Robinson	United Kingdom	Far-right activist and co-founder of the English Defence League	Substantial criminal record. [10]
Bassem Tamimi	Palestine	Activist	Views about ongoing political tensions in the Middle East.
Kanye West	United States	Rapper	Promoting Nazism through his music. [11]
Milo Yiannopoulos	United Kingdom	Far-right activist	Comments about the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Itamar Ben-Gvir	Israel	Politician	Inciting settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. [12] [13] [14]
Bezalel Smotrich	Israel	Politician	Inciting settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. [15] [13] [14]
Simcha Rothman	Israel	Politician	“Seeking to spread division” [16]

Previously banned

Name	Country of origin	Occupation	Reason banned	Ban lifted
Chris Brown	United States	Singer	Domestic violence.	Undecided (ban applied in 2015) [17]
Peter Chingoka	Zimbabwe	Cricket administrator	Connections to Robert Mugabe. [18]	2022 (deceased)
Novak Djokovic	Serbia	Tennis player	Deported on health and good-order grounds as there were concerns his presence would undermine the country's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. [19] [20]	2022 (Originally banned for three years under the Migration Act 1958 but was overturned by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles) [21]
Dick Gregory	United States	Actor and social critic	Government officials fearing he would "...stir up demonstrations against the Vietnam War." [22]	2017 (deceased)
George Lincoln Rockwell		Politician, neo-Nazi	Government concern about neo-Nazi, extremist rhetoric.	1967 (deceased) [23]
Snoop Dogg		Rapper	Convictions for drugs and firearms offenses.	2008 (ban applied in 2007) [24]
Skepta (Joseph Junior Adenuga)	United Kingdom		Punching a man at a nightclub in Melbourne in 2016.	2019
Tyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okanoma)	United States		Alleged promotion of violence against women.	2019 (ban claimed to be in effect around 2015)
Mike Tyson		Professional boxer	Criminal record, including rape charges. [25]	2012 (ban applied in 2001); granted a temporary visa. [26]
Vjekoslav Vrančić	Yugoslavia	High ranked Ustaše officer	Terroristic activities with extreme right wing Argentine political groups. [27]	1990 (deceased)

See also

• Travel ban
• List of people banned from entering Canada
• List of people banned from entering China
• List of people banned from entering Ukraine
• List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom
• List of people banned from entering the United States

References

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2. Davey, Melissa (7 November 2014). "US 'pick-up artist' Julien Blanc forced to leave Australia after visa canceled". The Guardian.
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4. "DAVID IRVING". SPLCenter.
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7. Conway, Tyler (4 February 2015). "Floyd Mayweather Denied Australian Visa Reportedly Due to Character Concerns". Bleacher Report.
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9. "Bilal Philips sent back". The Daily Star. 20 June 2014.
10. "'Tommy Robinson' banned from entering Australia". The National News. 30 January 2019.
11. Ng, Kelly (2 July 2025). "Kanye West blocked from entering Australia over Hitler song". BBC . Retrieved 3 July 2025.
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27. Croatia Press, Volumes 30-33 (1977), p. 14