Posted on 01/05/2022 8:03:21 PM PST by naturalman1975
Barty reveals pre-Aussie Open mindset Barty reveals pre-Aussie Open mindset Novak’s ’wildly anti-scientific’ beliefs exposed Novak’s ’wildly anti-scientific’ beliefs exposed Insta post responsible for Novak disaster Insta post responsible for Novak disaster Novak Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled and his Australian Open campaign is in tatters.
The tennis star was told to leave the country after he was stopped upon entering Australia despite claiming to have a vaccine exemption, sparking global controversy.
Djokovic will reportedly be transported to a quarantine hotel in the city before boarding a flight back to Europe, but is expected to try and challenge the decision in Victoria’s courts.
Barty reveals pre-Aussie Open mindset Barty reveals pre-Aussie Open mindset Novak’s ’wildly anti-scientific’ beliefs exposed Novak’s ’wildly anti-scientific’ beliefs exposed Insta post responsible for Novak disaster Insta post responsible for Novak disaster Novak Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled and his Australian Open campaign is in tatters.
The tennis star was told to leave the country after he was stopped upon entering Australia despite claiming to have a vaccine exemption, sparking global controversy.
Djokovic will reportedly be transported to a quarantine hotel in the city before boarding a flight back to Europe, but is expected to try and challenge the decision in Victoria’s courts.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I'm not. As I said, I don't approve of vaccine mandates.
But I also do not approve of people telling lies to get into Australia.
Two different issues.
It really surprises me that on a conservative forum, anybody would seriously deny the sovereign right of a country to set rules as to who crosses its borders. And that people don't see the problem with somebody trying to lie their way around those restrictions.
Djokovic is one of the best conditioned athletes in the world and already had Covid, he is no threat to anyone or himself.
None of that makes him exempt from Australian law when he's seeking to enter Australia or gives him the right to try and lie his way through border security.
And at the moment, that does seem to be what has happened. If it turns out that isn't true, my position would change. He'll be able to make his case in court.
I am not a Doctor, so I don't know if that is true. It certainly makes sense to me it might be with my limited knowledge of epidemiology (I'm a military historian so that's not an area I have more than a passing knowledge of and don't claim to).
But it's pretty much irrelevant as far as what Australian law says on this. Whether the law makes sense or not, it is what it is.
In Australia, as in America and some other places, the worst thing that ever happened to medicine is politics.
Sure. But that's one reason why I'm trying to get accurate information out there - not political spin.
I am not embarrassed by and never will be embarrassed by Australia securing its borders.
We’re lucky enough to be one of the few country’s in the world where nature makes it easy for us to maintain a high level of border security.
We decide who comes in here.
And being good at tennis shouldn’t get you special treatment.
seems to be translated from another language:
6 Jan: Sydney News Today: Border Force investigates other Australian Open players after the world’s best visa is cancelled
With Malta Pasqual Huanora
On Thursday, Interior Minister Karen Andrews confirmed that the border guard was currently investigating the allegations and did not rule out more players being sent home.
“I know those claims, and I can assure you that the Australian Border Force is investigating it now,” Ms. Andrews told 2GB. “ABF needs the opportunity to carry out an investigation, but if there is no evidence there, they will take appropriate action.”...
Tennis Australia officials have personally made a fuss about the federal government’s decision on Thursday. According to one source, the move seems to be motivated by politics and the desire to target skeptical-focused vaccines to increase the popularity of the government. They said Djokovic’s Instagram post and subsequent media interests motivated the federal government to take a tough attitude.
“I don’t know what the federal government will be [address the fact that] Several tennis players are already in the country and the same tax exemption is given to Novak. ” “It looks like the federal government is reacting to the media, but it’s accepting some players rather than the number one in the world.”...
Djokovic’s father Suljan Djokovic told a Serbian newspaper Telegraf His son said, “I’m a prisoner of war in Australia tonight, but I’ve never been so free.”
“From this moment on, Novak has become a symbol and leader of the free world, the world of poor and underprivileged nations and people,” he said.
“Tonight they can imprison him, tomorrow they can chain him, but the truth is like water, and it will always find its way.”...
https://sydneynewstoday.com/border-force-investigates-other-australian-open-players-after-the-worlds-best-visa-is-cancelled/489590/
6 Jan: 9News Australia: Djokovic to remain in Australia until Monday afternoon as he appeals his visa denial
By Mark Saunokonoko, Adam Vidler, Serena Seyfort
Federal Court judge Anthony Kelly has set the hearing for 10am on Monday and ordered Djokovic not be deported until at least 4pm on that day.
The star tennis player’s case went before the court at 6pm on Thursday, where his lawyer Nick Wood pushed for an interim injunction order to prevent Djokovic being deported before the appeal hearing.
Commonwealth government barrister Christopher Tran said Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews did not oppose the injunction against deporting Djokovic immediately.
The court also heard Djokovic was proposing to undertake damages of the appeal, which the judge accepted.
The tennis star is being held at a hotel in Melbourne’s CBD. Protesters gathered outside on Thursday afternoon, calling for the Serbian star to be freed.
Djokovic’s court case was delayed throughout the afternoon.
The judge “emphasised without criticism” that he had not been able to make a ruling on Djokovic’s application because the documents had not reached him since the court was earlier adjourned.
The court heard Tennis Australia would need to know by Tuesday if Djokovic can play at the Australian Open, to which Judge Kelly replied: “The tail won’t be wagging the dog here”...
Unvaccinated people, as a general rule, cannot enter Australia unless there they have a medical exemption.
“My understanding is that the Border Force is reviewing that,” Mr Hunt said...
Two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist Tennys Sandgren, an American player and outspoken vaccine sceptic, called the Djokovic announcement “wild” and “astonishing”.
He expected the reaction among players, fans and media to be a “mixed bag”.
“I’m sure there will be people that are upset that there was even an exemption in the first place and I can see why,” he told Today.
“But I know some people will be happy to see him play because he’s one of the best ever to pick up a racket.”...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/novak-djokovic-visa-cancelled-by-australia-border-force-after-tennis-star-held-for-hours-at-melbourneairport-australian-open-exemption/fd14c4c8-ba1c-45cf-b02c-259319de9863
3 Jan: The Age, Australia: Tennis stars back protocols and medicos ruling on vaccine exemptions
By Scott Spits
While compulsory vaccination has previously applied to staff and spectators at other tournaments, the Australian summer is the first time players have been subject to the rules...
Three-time major semi-finalist Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov said: “I’m not a doctor but I’m sure there’s a reason that if somebody needs that [an exemption]. If it’s legit … if it’s to that extent and that point, then of course.”...
Australia’s world No.1, Ashleigh Barty, backed the processes in place.
“It’s a tricky one for me because it’s not my decision. We put the trust in those people that are making those decisions. They have the correct information. That’s what it is. That’s all it is. There’s nothing else to it,” Barty said.
“That’s the very last thing I’m thinking of when I’m on the court is the medical history of the player on the opposite side.”...
Frenchman Gael Monfils also said he wouldn’t have a problem playing against an opponent with a medical exemption. “It’s a great question, to be honest,” said Monfils. “At the end it is what it is.″
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/tennis-stars-back-protocols-and-medicos-ruling-on-vax-exemptions-20220103-p59lhm.html
6 Jan: Mirror UK: Novak Djokovic ‘could be banned from Australia for three years’ over visa controversy
Novak Djokovic looks set to miss out on the 2022 Australian Open after his visa was cancelled by Australian Border Force.
‘No special rules for Novak Djokovic’, says Australian Prime Minister
By Liam Llewellyn
Novak Djokovic may be banned from Australia for three years following the debacle surrounding his visa, according to reports...
It is reported by Australian outlet The Age that authorities have not ruled out banning Djokovic from entering the country for three years should that appeal be unsuccessful...
Tennis Australia claimed on Thursday that other players who are due to play in the Australian Open have been allowed into the country after contracting COVID in the past six months, using the same exemption that Djokovic applied for.
Therefore, Border Force is set to launch investigations into the other players following the furore around the nine-time Australian Open champion’s attempted entry into the country...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/novak-djokovic-ban-three-years-25868344
6 Jan: UK Telegraph: Novak Djokovic: What we know about the hotel where world No 1 is being held
by Our Foreign Staff
Soon after the decision, he was taken to the Park Hotel, a quarantine facility in Melbourne, after being held at the city’s airport overnight and was told he would be removed from the country later on Thursday.
The Park Hotel is used by the Australian government to detain refugees and asylum seekers and has been a focal point of anger for protesters against the government’s hostile immigration policies...
There has been criticism in the Australian media of conditions inside the hotel. In October, there was a Covid outbreak in which more than 20 people tested positive.
Salah Mustafa, who was held at the hotel, told The Guardian: “I sit in the room and I am afraid. We are all afraid.
“Today, I am negative, my son is negative. But tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, what then? Everywhere is infection.”
“We are trapped here. We are stuck in our rooms, waiting [for] this virus to come.”...
Victoria’s health minister, Martin Foley, admitted to the Guardian that the state government was “quite concerned” about the situation inside the hotel.
Last month, Australia’s SBS News published photographs which it said showed food given to the detainees that contained maggots and mould.
Ian Rintoul, a spokesperson at Refugee Action Coalition, told SBS that he was “horrified” by the photographs.
“[The maggots] were alive in the plastic dish… People refused to eat it and demanded that it be taken away,” he said.
“There was no other food bought to replace it. So they either ate the maggot-infested food, the mouldy bread or went hungry. Most went hungry.”...
Last month, the Daily Mail also reported that two fires broke out and a person was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. Police also said that a member of staff had been assaulted...
Nevertheless, the hotel’s website bills it as a “luxurious 4.5-star hotel set in a prime location”. It has 107 rooms, all air-conditioned. It is also close to centre of Melbourne and is near the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women’s Hospital.
By Thursday afternoon, Djokovic’s supporters, draped in Serbian flags, had congregated outside the hotel that is now at the centre of a diplomatic row.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/novak-djokovic-what-we-know-about-the-hotel-where-world-no-1-is-being-held/ar-AAStTgB?ocid=uxbndlbing
Not true at all.
6 Jan: news.com.au: Immigration expert Abul Rizvi details three legal questions in Novak Djokovic’s favour
Novak Djokovic’s situation seems dire, but a legal expert has detailed three questions the government might struggle to answer.
by Alex Blair
“Mr Djokovic was granted a visa on the assumption that all the legal requirements had been met,” Mr Rizvi told The Project on Thursday evening.
“The government is now saying all the legal requirements had not been met.
“The second layer is when the person boards an aeroplane to come to Australia – there are Australian Border Force officers there who can prevent a person boarding an aeroplane to Australia if there are issues with the visa. Now, that was only some 24-48 hours ago, I understand, and yet no action was taken to prevent Mr Djokovic boarding.”
Mr Rizvi said action only took place at the “third layer of protection”, at an Australian airport. He warned Djokovic’s case would set a dangerous precedent that will “create enormous amounts of chaos at Australian airports and as international travel ramps up”.
“That is the last layer at which the protection should be applied,” he continued...
“If I were Mr Djokovic‘s lawyer, there would be three questions I would be asking,” he said.
“The first question: ‘If my client had not met all of the legal requirements for a visa, why did you grant him a visa?’
“The second question I would ask is: ‘If you had concerns about my client’s visa, why did you not cancel that visa prior to him boarding a plane to Australia?’
“The third question I would ask is: ‘Given that you granted my client a visa, and none of the circumstances prior to grant have changed since that time, on what basis can you cancel that visa?’”...
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open/immigration-expert-abul-rizvi-details-three-legal-questions-in-novak-djokovics-favour/news-story/068753f416aff1d2b487b4e77c463558
He’s not the only player traveling under the same kind of visa.
What about the other players...
Yes sir, Australia has the sovereign right to deny anybody it wants entry into their country.
But I wonder if they thought this one out as it is rapidly turning into an international incident.
Good luck with your citizens being treated nicely trying to enter Serbia (not that Serbia is the hot destination). See, they are a sovereign nation too. They can exercise their sovereignty and detain your citizens upon entry.
Yes,I get it. There are few non Australians who love Australia more than me.I've spent a lot of time there...interacted with many Aussies...and still dream of living in one of those amazing houses situated on the cliffs overlooking Coogee Beach (Sydney suburb).I've even told you about my failed attempt to be granted permission to settle...the failure due to my advanced age and me not having a skill that's in short supply.
Unless I'm mistaken Aussies take great pride in the Australian Open,just as Brits do in Wimbledon and we do in the US Open. You're surely aware that The Big Guy (Hunter's Dad) has allowed 2 million disease ridden,illiterate foreigners into our country and that a million illiterate moslems have recently been allowed into Europe (courtesy of a certain East German).But in this case we're talking about one man...a man considered by many to be one of the best players ever.He hopes to play in Rod Laver Areana,also one of the best to ever play.
Surely your state government,or your national government,can make this one exception while making it very clear that there will be no imitation of current US policy regarding foreigners.
Doing so will go a long way toward diminishing the anger that Europeans feel about recent changes in Australia's military equipment procurement policies!
everything repeated twice everything repeated twice
But "Whether the law makes sense or not, it is what it is" would not have been a very good defense in 1945 Germany.
Hey,ease up on Naturalman.Don’t take a snarky attitude with him. He’s one of the most thoughtful Freepers we have...and the fact he’s Australian adds to the worth of his contributions. Disagree with him if you wish (as I’ve done on *this* matter) but he is *not* our enemy.Not even close!
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