Djokovic loses visa appeal, won't play in Australian Open

CNN ^ | 1/16/22 | By Hilary Whiteman, Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung and Adam Renton, CNN

[Alberta's Child]

Get real. A nation of people as docile and compliant as Australians will never even admit they were conned in the first place.

[MinorityRepublican]

Let China take the Down Under. The land its underutilized. The Chinese will extract natural resources and of course, establish new colonies with people of Han ancestry.

China may not have the naval capabilities to pull this off yet. But I'll give them a decade. This is why Australia made the nuclear submarine deal with the U.S.

What's interesting though is that China will probably acquire their blue water navy capacity before Australia gets the submarines, which would be my guess.

[Fury]

Their country, their rules.

With that said, this whole spectacle is an embarrassment to the Australian Open. Sporting events of a much larger magnitude have been safely conducted with some participants unvaxxed. What this suggests is that the Australian open is not confident in its ability and in the science to have competitors who are unvaccinated to participate.

[MAGAthon]

should have added Queensland is even open to NSW, which has been announcing CASES of between 30,000 and 63,000 daily (sniffles).

as for why the Govt needs to keep the fear and the jabs going:

Australia: population approx 26 million.
have excerpted only the majority of the Pfizer doses ordered. check out the rest:

Australian Dept of Health: Australia’s vaccine agreements
The Australian Government has invested over $8 billion in the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Learn more about our vaccine agreements.
In November 2020, the Australian Government agreed to buy 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Read the Minister for Health’s November 2020 statement on the Pfizer vaccine agreement.
In February 2021, Australia ordered an extra 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Read the Minister for Health’s February 2021 statement.
In April 2021, the Australian Government ordered a further 20 million doses of Pfizer vaccines. Read the Prime Minister’s press conference.
In July 2021, the Australian Government announced the purchase of 85 million more doses. These were planned to be booster doses, ensuring Australia’s supply of mRNA vaccines in 2022 and 2023...
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/about-rollout/vaccine-agreements

[whitney69]

Don’t feel too bad about him. He broke rules.

Djokovic was initially given an exemption to the federal requirement that everyone entering Australia be vaccinated against the coronavirus so that he could play in the Australian Open. It was granted based on a positive test he took in Serbia on Dec. 16.

But an investigation revealed irregularities and inaccurate statements on Djokovic’s visa application — which Djokovic later acknowledged and apologized for on Wednesday. The documents failed to state that Djokovic, who lives in Monte Carlo, had traveled between Serbia and Spain during the 14 days ahead of his arrival in Australia. Djokovic attributed the error to human oversight by one of his handlers.

The Australian government also expressed concern that on Dec. 18, a day after Djokovic learned that he had tested positive, he hosted journalists at his tennis center in Belgrade for an interview and photo shoot, without informing them. Those revelations led to the second visa revocation on Friday. Zoran Gojkovic, a member of Serbia’s coronavirus crisis team, said the player’s positive test result was valid. Djokovic is not displaying a whole lot of concern for other people and loses his credibility in being trusted to isolate himself away from the Australian population while in the country with a positive test accurate.

And some current and past players are not in his favor. “The Australian Open is much more important than any player,” Rafael Nadal, who has also won 20 Grand Slam titles, said on Saturday. “If he’s playing finally, OK. If he’s not playing, The Australian Open will be a great Australian Open with or without him.”

But Martina Navratilova, the Hall of Fame player and analyst, told the Sunrise television program in Australia that Djokovic should withdraw on his own to end the drama. “It’s just the right thing to do,” she said.

No matter what people think of Australia concerning their covid actions, it is their country and they are doing what they think best. Couldn’t be any worse than the allowance of illegals entering our country with no history or testing at all and our government is not only supporting the action, they are assisting it. So each end of the scale may be wrong, but at least Australia is trying to protect rather than open the flood gates like we have. And Djokovic has not done a whole lot in his actions to stay within the limits of the exemption he received originally. He screwed up. Pay the penalty.

wy69

[period end of story]

He screwed up. Pay the penalty.

It's not a penalty.

He has exposed stupidity at its finest

You're welcome.

[canuck_conservative]

He broke rules

IF that's true, then why didn't the Australian Govt. use that as the reason to revoke the visa?

But instead, they claim he's some kind of "political threat" because he might inspire some anti-vax protests or something ...

that's petty political persecution at its lowest, something we expected out of the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, not a "modern democracy"

baaaaad look, Australia

[reg45]

The Australian Not-Really-Open.

[KittyKares]

Does Australia have tens of thousands of illegals? They don’t have a country on their border like we do.

[reg45]

Perhaps they will open the Australian Not-Really-Open with their new national anthem “Retard Australia Unfair”.

[period end of story]

But instead, they claim he's some kind of "political threat" because he might inspire some anti-vax protests or something ...

Fear. They fear he will tear down their false wall of protection.

When we enter the omicron endemic, very soon, this Aussie BS will be fully exposed.

[reg45]

there's over 2 million unvaccinated citizens already in Australia, are they all a threat too? (apparently, yes)

Well, the government is sending them to concentration camps.

[GregH]

Australia has many hundreds of thousands of illegals who had initially come in short term visas and never left. Many also claim asykum status.

Although Australia does not have a amnesty policy, it has nevertheless found it difficult to deport such people.

[KittyKares]

And I thought we were the only country with loosey goosey border control.

[GaryCrow]

Don’t feel too bad about him. He broke rules.

I don't feel bad about him, he'll be fine. Australia is the loser in this, not him. Australia now looks like the creepy Karen that yells at some kid because he doesn't wear a mask outside. The country belongs to the people of Australia and if they're OK with what their politicians are doing then it's no skin off my back. If it were my country though, I'd do my best to toss the whole lot of them out at the next election. It doesn't matter to me though, they're the ones that suffer from this idiocy.

[MAGAthon]

16 Jan: XYZ.net Australia: Novak Djokovic DEPORTED To Prevent Aussie Anti-Vax Revolution
By David Hiscox
“It’s not just the applicant’s public statements that he is opposed to vaccination, it is the fact of his ongoing non-vaccinated status,” (the government’s barrister, Stephen Lloyd, SC) said.
“He could have been vaccinated if he wanted to be”.

Mr Lloyd has backed up the minister’s view that Djokovic’s mere presence in Australia could whip up anti-vax sentiment.
“The concern is that he’s a high profile person and in many respects a role model so that his presence in Australia would present more strongly to Australians his anti-vaccination views,” Mr Lloyd said.
“The applicant has a history of ignoring safety measures.”...

Mr Lloyd said Djokovic was a known “icon” for anti-vaxxers.
He made that statement as he was being quizzed by Justice James Allsop on whether the minister had provided enough proof that the tennis star was indeed someone anti-vaxxers looked up to.
Mr Lloyd said it was “common sense” and “uncontroversial” that celebrities could influence people, after all that’s why advertisers paid them to spruik their products.
He called Djokovic an “icon” on at least three occasions...
https://xyz.net.au/2022/01/novak-djokovic-deported-to-prevent-aussie-anti-vax-revolution/

[MAGAthon]

stinking Murdoch’s news.com.au uses FLEES in headline! btw remember Piers Morgan is coming to Fox Nation this year. and who knows who he might replace at Fox afterwards?

16 Jan: news.com.au: ‘Extremely disappointed’ Novak Djokovic ***FLEES Australia tonight
Novak Djokovic will leave Australia tonight after he failed to overturn Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision to cancel his visa.
by Benedict Brook, James Matthey and Nic Savage; with AFP
13 min read
The Age reported that Djokovic will leave Australia tonight, departing on a 10.30pm Emirates flight to Dubai...

Tweet: Piers Morgan
BREAKING: Covid rule cheat, immigration form liar, & anti-vaxxer icon Novak Djokovic loses final appeal against deportation & will be thrown out of Australia without being able to compete in Aus Open. Good.

Tweet: Ben Rothenberg (Contributor for CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Slate, and more)
(Periodic and important reminder that Djokovic could have avoided all this rigamarole by simply getting vaccinated like 97%+ of his tennis player peers have.)...

ATP also released a statement: “Today’s decision to uphold Novak Djokovic’s Australian visa cancellation marks the end of a deeply regrettable series of events.
“Ultimately, decisions of legal authorities regarding matters of public health must be respected. More time is required to take stock of the facts and to take the learnings from this situation blah blah...
“ATP continues to strongly recommend vaccination to all players.”...
16 Jan: Toowoomba Chronicle: ‘Extremely disappointed’ Novak Djokovic flees Australia tonight
Novak Djokovic will leave Australia tonight after he failed to overturn Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision to cancel his visa.
by Benedict Brook, James Matthey and Nic Savage, news.com.au; with AFP
13 min read
The Age reported that Djokovic will leave Australia tonight, departing on a 10.30pm Emirates flight to Dubai...

Tweet: Piers Morgan
BREAKING: Covid rule cheat, immigration form liar, & anti-vaxxer icon Novak Djokovic loses final appeal against deportation & will be thrown out of Australia without being able to compete in Aus Open. Good.

Tweet: Ben Rothenberg (Contributor for CNN, The New York Times, BBC, Slate, and more)
(Periodic and important reminder that Djokovic could have avoided all this rigamarole by simply getting vaccinated like 97%+ of his tennis player peers have.)...

ATP also released a statement: “Today’s decision to uphold Novak Djokovic’s Australian visa cancellation marks the end of a deeply regrettable series of events.
“Ultimately, decisions of legal authorities regarding matters of public health must be respected. More time is required to take stock of the facts and to take the learnings from this situation blah blah...
“ATP continues to strongly recommend vaccination to all players.”...
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open/live-novak-djokovic-court-hearing-updates-result-of-visa-cancellation/news-story/5f941dd26abe1171e4a7f2e63644b05b

[AmericanInTokyo]

It’s their country. It’s their sovereign rule.

If a visitor does not want to follow the immigration laws of a country he or she enters? He has no room to bellyache. Same with our sovereignty. I’d be a hypocrite to insist any different based on my immigration related postings here for many years (particular illegal immigration).

[T.B. Yoits]

It’s their country. It’s their sovereign rule.

True and like Idi Amin they can rig any competition within their borders so that they choose the winner. The rest of the world will call them out for their fraud.

[TTFX]

It’s their country. It’s their sovereign rule.

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Yes. North Korea is the country of people who live there. They make the rules.