Government urged to deny controversial US commentator Candace Owens entry into NZ

By RNZ Young Labour has published an open letter urging the Government to follow Australia’s lead and stop Candace Owens entering the country. The conservative US commentator and Trump supporter has caused controversy with her views questioning the Holocaust, and criticising feminism, the Black Lives Matter movement, and trans people. She is booked to deliver a speech in Auckland next month — and had been expected to continue to Australia until she was refused entry.

Tickets were selling for between $95 for general admission and $1500 for a VIP package with a pre-show dinner, champagne reception and meet-and-greet. Australian Immigration Minister Tony Burke said the country’s national interest would be best served with Owens somewhere else, as she could “incite discord in almost every direction”..