Last I heard, the Fighting Karens of Melbourne were double-A ball... 
Posted on 01/10/2022 6:44:51 PM PST by naturalman1975
The Australian Border Force are investigating whether Novak Djokovic lied on his entry form.
It appears he made a false declaration claiming he had not travelled in the 14 days leading up to his arrival in Melbourne, the Herald Sun reports.
All travellers arriving in Australia are asked if they have 'travelled or will travel in the 14 days prior to your flight to Australia'.
They are also warned: 'Giving false or misleading information is a serious offence. You may also be liable to a civil penalty for giving false or misleading information.'
Djokovic ticked 'No' in response to the question, however that appears to be in direct conflict with the timeline of his recent movements.
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I think what we're saying is that the conflict between the state and federal government is a problem to be hashed out between the state and federal government and not the problem of the guy who received an invitation from the state government.
(Djokovic didn't just fly in without any piece of paper; he learned too late that the piece of paper he had in his hand was inadequate. And the question still stands: Did he have any reason to suspect that he didn't have the right paperwork, or did he act in good faith?)
Mass human trafficking operation to prevent ghost towns; the high casualty count of children exposes the reason for it (replacement Americans for public schools).
Eric Adams: “When a mayor has swagger, the city has swagger”.
Those people don’t look like they “swagger”; more like a shuffle...
Last I heard, the Fighting Karens of Melbourne were double-A ball...
As I've said, I've come to accept that his conclusions weren't unreasonable.
But, having said that, considering how often he's visited Australia (I've no idea of the total number of times, but he's won nine Australian Opens, so it is at least nine times), I honestly would expect him to understand the difference between the Victorian and Australian governments. And certainly, he should have people working for him, who do.
If I wanted to visit an event or a company in Australia I would presumably get a piece of paper with a crown at the top saying something to the effect of, "You're good to go, mate." Nobody's going to look past that piece of paper.
If I was travelling to America and I had a piece of paper issued by Iowa, I wouldn't assume it was an entry permit to the United States.
If one of the state governments is issuing pieces of paper on its own, then that looks like a real problem for the federal government to hash out with that state government.
Yes, it is. But we did not know this was a problem until a few days ago. And, to be fair, I don't think the Victorian government actually intended anybody to think they were giving such permission. They've actually been quite clear that the intent of the documents they produced was only to ensure Djokovic was unrestricted once he entered Victoria - they didn't intend for it to be treated as a border permit. Personally, I'd love to believe they were being deliberately duplicitous on that basis, but I honestly do not think they were. I'm less sure about what Tennis Australia intended - but there's no constitutional implications flowing from what they did.
If you want to make it the responsibility of every visitor to Australia to make the long distance phone calls to the authorities or to hire an immigration lawyer to study a piece of paper to ensure that it's legit, well, you're going to watch tourism to your country collapse overnight. Any internecine conflicts between the federal and state level simply can't be the problem of someone coming to your country to spend money (or in Djokovic's case, help raise it).
It wasn't necessary to make phone calls or hire an immigration lawyer. The statement that double vaccination was a requirement to enter Australia and that having COVID within the last six months was not an exemption for the purpose of entering Australia was stated quite clearly on information published by the Commonwealth government. Moreover Tennis Australia was explicitly told this numerous times and seems to have ignored it - I'm waiting to see what develops there.
Securing All countries borders is a major issue. Unfortunately not all leaders believe in that concept. I still don’t know why he was not just kicked out of Australia. Take care down under.
11 Jan: UK Telegraph: Novak Djokovic affair exposes Australia’s Covid policy as hysterical and paranoid
by Mark Higgie
Mark Higgie was Australia’s ambassador to the EU and international advisor to former prime minister Tony Abbott (Liberal Party)
After two years of fiercely policed lockdowns and restrictions, Australians, like Britons, feel rightly outraged when they perceive one rule for the elites – be they participants in the G20 and COP26 jamborees, Hollywood celebrities or tennis stars – and another for the rest of us.
But Novak Djokovic did everything by the rules and deserves an apology for the treatment he’s received. The Australian government’s attempt to cancel his visa smacks of playing to the crowd.
The Djokovic affair will sadly feed international perceptions that Australia, long rightly seen as a land of robust common sense, has become hysterical and paranoid in response to the pandemic.
Australia still deserves credit for its early, efficient response to the virus, and its recent lightning-speed vaccine roll-out. But this soon turned into an obsession with achieving zero-Covid, leading to absurdly disproportionate over-reactions such as entire cities and states being locked down over handfuls of cases and Australians long being denied the right to leave or enter the country.
The Morrison government claims that to enter Australia you need not only a visa but to meet separate Covid ‘entry requirements’, which are policed only on arrival. This is ridiculous.
As happens with other countries, all entry requirements should be sorted out before the visa is issued and the visitor steps on the plane - as Djokovic clearly did.
Federal judge Anthony Kelly has salvaged some of Australia’s reputation over the affair by overruling the government’s cancellation of Djokovic’s visa.
In doing so, he noted the shabby treatment Djokovic received at the hands of border officials on arrival in Melbourne, who cancelled his visa without allowing him an opportunity to speak first to Tennis Australia and urged him, on the basis of a ‘spurious rationale’, not to get in touch with his lawyers.
Despite a judge freeing Djokovic early yesterday, the federal immigration minister has the authority to cancel Djokovic’s visa a second time – which would have the indefensible effect of banning Djokovic from visiting Australia for three years.
When you’re in a hole, don’t keep digging.
As Clive James famously said, the problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many are descended from prison officers. We can only hope that the pandemic is on the wane and that we’ll soon be able to focus again soon on the likes of Djokovic on the tennis court rather than in courts of law.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/novak-djokovic-affair-exposes-australias-covid-policy-as-hysterical-and-paranoid/ar-AASDByx?ocid=uxbndlbing
Honestly, I think it was because the Judge was pissed off at the behaviour of Border Force officers - and quite rightly. If they didn't outright violate Djokovic's legal rights during questioning, they leant right over that line.
"My shift is about to end" isn't a good enough reason to deny somebody proper due process.
That is a good point. Just keep your mouth shut and don’t say lets Go Brandon if you come here. That DC gulag is the pits.
This whole matter has a foul aroma about it...an aroma that at least one or two Australian politicians and/bureaucrats clearly don't find unpleasant at all.
Well, now I am going to exaggerate about your point, but as an example, if California invited a known terrorist from Iran to visit and give a speech in San Francisco(very possible with California’s state government!), would that supersede the USA Federal Government from rejecting a visa and keep that person from entering the USA? All the non-Aussie citizens tennis players and supporting staff have to have a sports working visa to get into Australia for the Open. Covid questions and restrictions have been added to that type of visa. Of course, like some countries, the main reason for the working visa is for Australia to collect taxes. It looks like 99% of the foreign players and staff have filled out the visa forms properly to come to the Open. By the way, I am totally against these stupid Covid restrictions on traveling in and out of Australia and between our states. But what we can see here, from what is going on in the USA, the vaccine mandates and rules are much worse in your leftist controlled states like California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, etc. Let’s face it, if the Supreme Court doesn’t reject Biden’s mandates, you will will have in place Federal vaccine mandates, something we do not have here in Oz. And, unlike poor naturalman, who lives in the worst leftist state in Oz, I live where we have have had very little restrictions and travel restrictions, compared to most of the USA.
See Post #70
I am afraid the FBI is already monitoring us in Oz!
You are correct, you have your deep state and we have ours. But while your Federal deep state is really bad, our states might be even worse with their power grab.
But you have just insulted an Aussie military veteran.
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You think good Americans are not furious about what happened in Afghanistan and disgusted with the political and military leadership that caused it?
The United States military is currently led by one of the biggest douchebags on the planet. Just because somebody is or was in the military doesn’t mean they can’t be a complete idiot. Your comrade and I’m guessing you both know zippo about freedom and again Novak has done more in one week than you’ll both do in your life times for freedom in Australia.
There’s an FBI office in Canberra. Seriously.
And many other countries.
Allow me to explain about Californistan (Northern Mexico)...
There's a federal district court in California that thinks it supersedes the US Supreme Court.
I’m starting to feel exactly the same.
Always wanted to see and put my hand on Uluru; but now I’m doubting I’d want to go there.
This seems like a ridiculous persecution of one individual who is probably no harm to anyone.
I will give you just one example of the exaggerations:
Senator Alex Antic (whom I quite like) from Queensland, but can really be over the top sometimes, came to visit his family in Adelaide recently. For most of the past two year there was no requirement for vaccines to cross the South Australian border, but if you were not vaccinated around Christmas, you could still come in but then go into self-quarnatine at your home, if you lived here. But if vaccinated no quarantine at all. It gets so complicated, I am not even sure what the rules are now with Covid running wild. Antic is a very conservative member of the Senate and part of the Liberal Party (conservative here...that can be confusing) and there was some type of miscommunications between Canberra (Morrison) and South Australia that he could come from Canberra to South Australia without quarantine, as he refused to say whether he was vaccinated. (Actually, again, I agree with his position). But in fact he is double-vaccinated with the booster...but we all know that is a joke anyway as it does not keep you from getting Covid. But anyway, at the airport they said he had to go to a medi-hotel to quarantine since he wouldn't tell them his vaccine status.
There are no detention “camps” in South Australia. In fact there is only one in all of Australia, in the Northern Terrority and that is a site set up by the Japanese LNG IPEX company to build a LNG facility near Darwin and held 3000 construction workers at one time, and then donated to the NT in 2019.
All the states use hotels for people in quarantine, and the hotels are happy with this, because they were not getting many travelers and people could go into the 14 days of quarantine in the hotels and then have a least a few room being used. The people in quarantine are supposed to pay the hotels for the stays, but as typical Aussies, almost everybody is refusing to pay.
In Senator Antis case he went to the new Pullman Hotel in Adelaide, which is a five star luxury hotel and one of the nicest in Adelaide. https://pullmanadelaide.com.au https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g255093-d1493248-r60801689-Pullman_Adelaide-Adelaide_Greater_Adelaide_South_Australia.html
So then after this, which you probably saw or read, he goes on a tirade on Bannon’s show and then on Tucker about the “social communist credit system trying to be installed” (we saw him on Tucker).
Both my husband I really like Antic, but we had no idea what he was talking about, and now all the conservatives that follow Bannon are taking what Antic said literally. Actually, we think he knows he screwed a bit with the exaggerations and giving a false impression to the USA on TV.
Hopefully, when Andrew Bolt comes back in a few weeks on Sky News Australia he will have Antic on as a guest. He was on a couple of time with other commentators, but we missed him.
He is a great advocate for the anti-vaccine mandates and we support him in that.
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