Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
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#2Did the question around potentially doctored documents ever reach a conclusion?
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#3RIP Australian Open.
It left a bitter taste when it died.
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#4Now the path to the finals has cleared right up for Michael Ymer. Go Sweden!
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#5David Crowe writes in The Age
The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison
Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied?
Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he is only a few months away from an election.
But this is not game, set and match. The entire saga has put Australia’s pandemic dysfunction up in lights. It was a national embarrassment and may continue through the courts.
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#6David Crowe writes in The Age https://archive.ph/Ohx6d The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied? Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he…
Responding to your rhetorical... Yes.
Covid is rampant at this point. An aggressive testing path and allowing him to play would absolutely be in the public's best interest.
It's clowns on both sides here but the risk of letting him in is definitely not high enough to balance the public benefit of him being allowed to play. Once he plays the special public benefit ends and so should his visa.
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#7Completely absurd behavior from the Australian authorities.
They knew he wasn’t vaccinated from the get go, yet gave him an exemption which they later withdrew after he entered the country.
No way to treat anyone, international tennis star or not.
Re: Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
#8David Crowe writes in The Age https://archive.ph/Ohx6d The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied? Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he…
> Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he is only a few months away from an election.
This has been the entire strategy for the government's handling of the pandemic - national interests be damned, as long as it favours the party being re-elected.
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#9Will Novak Djokovic face the same consequences when playing other tournaments of the grand slam in the USA, UK, and France?
Presumably, he is not a citizen of any of these countries. So he does not have right of entry.
Re: Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
#10David Crowe writes in The Age https://archive.ph/Ohx6d The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied? Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he…
Responding to your rhetorical... Yes. Covid is rampant at this point. An aggressive testing path and allowing him to play would absolutely be in the public's best interest. It's clowns on both sides here but the risk of letting him in is definitely not high enough to balance the public benefit of him being allowed to play. Once he plays the special public benefit ends and so should his visa.
He falsified information he submitted to immigration authorities.
That’s the match (to use a pun)