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Tony Burke is Australia's Minister for Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship. He is responsible for keeping Australians safe, managing who comes into this country and who gets to stay. Here is his record.
He owns six investment properties while telling Australians that mass immigration is the solution to the housing crisis.
He ran industrial scale citizenship ceremonies in the weeks before the 2025 federal election. His department took over from local councils and staged 25 ceremonies at Sydney Olympic Park swearing in 12,500 new Australian citizens in a matter of days. Twenty one of those 25 ceremonies were held in Labor held or marginal seats. Liverpool Council confirmed 700 citizenship applications were rushed through specifically in the seat of Werriwa. Multiple people familiar with citizenship ceremonies said what Burke did was unprecedented. The local Liberal mayor said they were stacking marginal seats better than Woolworths stacks shelves. Burke denied targeting Labor seats then went on an Indian media podcast and bragged about running mass citizenship ceremonies before the election.
On that same podcast he said he wants to give citizenship to all 2.9 million people currently in Australia on temporary visas. He also said immigration is the solution to the housing crisis. This is the man with six investment properties telling you that bringing in more people will fix the housing shortage.
When he took over as Home Affairs Minister in July 2024 his predecessor had been cancelling visas of foreign criminals under intense public pressure. Burke cancelled zero visas on character grounds in his first month. Zero. His predecessor had cancelled 77 in about a year. Burke was described as a soft touch who failed to use his powers to protect the community.
Then there are the ISIS brides. Australian women who voluntarily left Australia to join Islamic State in Syria were allowed to return. Burke publicly denied the government was involved in facilitating their return. Internal department notes from a June 2025 meeting show his own department recorded that he gave a commitment to find a way to bring more of the cohort back to Australia. He then asked the departmental staff member to leave the room so he could have a frank off the record discussion. The head of the Home Affairs department attended that meeting. A letter from Save the Children included a blacked out list of individuals to be repatriated. The women arrived. Burke still maintains the government played no role.
Naveed Akram who carried out the Bondi Beach massacre on December 14 2025 killing 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration grew up in Burke's electorate of Watson in southwest Sydney. He was first investigated by ASIO in 2019 as an associate of Islamic State supporters, assessed and cleared under Burke's own agency's oversight, then travelled to the southern Philippines for weapons training before murdering 15 Australians. Burke says there are things he cannot say publicly due to suppression orders. What he can say is that assessments were made and the threat was not considered high enough. Fifteen people are dead.
Hizb ut-Tahrir which Burke himself has described since his first term in parliament as a radicalising organisation causing nothing but harm in the community still operates freely in Australia. Burke says he keeps asking whether they meet the legal threshold for banning. They are still there.
And through all of this Burke has publicly stated he has never accepted the word assimilation and does not want migrants to lose who they are. There are currently 77,000 people living in Australia without valid visas on his watch.
This is not incompetence. This is a deliberate agenda being run by a man who has been in parliament since 2004, knows exactly what he is doing and answers to a Labor government that has presided over record immigration, record housing unaffordability, record power bills, record debt and a terrorist attack that killed 15 Australians in his own electorate.
So here is the question. After reading all of that why would any Australian vote for Labor or the Greens who support every single one of these policies and are doing nothing but helping them destroy the country we grew up in.
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