Posted on 01/14/2022 5:15:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 01/14/2022 7:51:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
MELBOURNE — Novak Djokovic faces deportation again after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said Friday he used his ministerial discretion to revoke the 34 year-old player’s visa on public interest grounds three days before the Australian Open is to begin.
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the other players should all refuse to play
The Australian Sh*t Show continues.
You couldn’t ask for a more effective destruction of a brand than what has transpired in Australia over the past 2 years.
My once *very* positive opinion of Australia has been knocked down many,many pegs. I'd bet the clothes on my back that some government official,government bureaucrat or Tournament official has dreams of an Australian being champion for the first time in 55 years.
Sounds strangely like Biden POTATUS...............
I would like to hear your take on this development.
Who knew Aussies were such pu$$ies?
Lying on the visa about the trips did him in...but for that they probably would have let it slide.
I have been discussing it on another thread -
Briefly - I would like Djokovic to be able to play.
But the current situation puts Australia's border security at risk for various reasons, I've done my best to outline elsewhere.
I am hoping the current court case will end in a ruling that allows him to play, but avoids the negative border security outcomes that Monday's ruling created.
There's at least a couple of ways I think that could happen legally - and there may be others I do not know about.
I think Americans are seeing this through a lens that has been severely distorted by months and months of misinformation about Australia. They think this is mostly about issues that really aren't an important part of the big picture.
At the core of this is the basic statement that lies at the heart of Australian border security policy, and has for over twenty years.
We decide who comes to Australia, and the circumstances under which they come. That policy is absolutely rigid, and no exceptions are made.
And American conservatives used to celebrate that aspect of Australian border policy. Hell, just after he was elected, President Trump told our then Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, he wished he could copy it.
Just leave. Not sure fighting this is worth it.
Leave it with your middle finger stuck up high.
A guy visits an Island that started out as a Penal Colony for the worlds most vicious and dangerous criminals, and he expected some kind of Freedom???
Because he did not take a shot that does not work on a disease that is nothing more than a cold.
It looks like China might just win the optics as most welcoming to international athletes when it hosts the Winter Olympics.
Maybe there is a Winter Olympic sport he can participate in.
But I wonder if he understands the “nuances” here....one guy,a citizen of the European Union,not disease ridden,not likely to claim asylum,not likely to apply for benefits and not likely to advocate the violent overthrow of the government.Add to that the fact that he only wants to stay for a couple of weeks *and* that his presence will raise the importance of a tournament that goes a long way toward boosting the image of that small nation and you have the argument for making an exception.
This one’s easy, Djoker. Leave and announce you will never return. Their loss. I’d love it if you did the same thing to NYC for the U.S. Open.
Maybe Hawkes pink panties are showing.
We had plans to sail to OZ in 2020 to visit old shipmates in Sidney before all this started. I doubt we will ever go back there again.
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