From Approval to Expulsion: A One-Minute Google Fail

An American YouTuber has been kicked out of the country after my Sky News colleague Sharri Markson brought attention to antisemitic comments he had made online.

Which raises the question, is it now up to journalists to vet visitors applying for visas?

Why did it take google searches by Sharri Markson to discover that Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy - who goes by the name Sneako - was not a fit person to be granted a visa?

Most Australians use google before buying a new toaster. And yet staff in Tony Burke’s Home Affairs Department can’t even use it when deciding who gets to come into the country at a time of unprecedented division.

Or perhaps those in the Home Affairs Department just aren’t terribly curious when it comes to antisemitism.

It’s all very well for Home Affairs to revoke the man’s visa after his anti Jew comments came to light … but why should that be the case?

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced today that Sneako had been kicked out of the country and he had been issued a permanent ban.

Burke told journalists …