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The issue here was Djokovic was granted a visa to travel to Australia. A visa only allows you to jump on a plane but it doesn't guarantee entry into Australia which is given on arrival. Once he got here, the law mandates he's allowed to appeal a decision not to allow him entry which he did, but he should never have been given a visa in the first place if he couldn't prove he was double vaccinated. His visa should have been cancelled before he even started to come here and if it was, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

I'm sure like me you've watched hundreds of internationals arriving in Australia on the Border Force show on tv BC only to not satisfy Customs that his their application is valid and they are put on the next plane home and banned from applying for a visa to Australia for 3 years.

As an Australian citizen and tax payer I expect the same to apply here. Like I said in my previous post, the Australian government is setting a dangerous precedent if they don't treat him the same as any other entrant who managed to get on a plane to Australia.

It will make a mockery of Australian border rules.

BC wrote:

The issue here was Djokovic was granted a visa to travel to Australia. A visa only allows you to jump on a plane but it doesn't guarantee entry into Australia which is given on arrival. Once he got here, the law mandates he's allowed to appeal a decision not to allow him entry which he did, but he should never have been given a visa in the first place if he couldn't prove he was double vaccinated. His visa should have been cancelled before he even started to come here and if it was, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Pretty much spot on, TA went were chucking double back-flips with a pike to get this joker in, I am not certain they ever properly vetting his medical information, it's very hard to sort the chain of events here, but it sounds to be he made a representation that he had been infected with Covid to get the TA approval a visa, prior to him actually being infected a second time and that's what lead to the alert Border Force officer holding him up at the airport.



This is a bloke that was holding discos during covid and also even after he was infected was posing with pictures with families and kids recently.


 

Now its showing he lied on his border declaration stating he didn't travel elsewhere 14 days before arriving in Aus.  When in fact he did go to Spain to train.   
12 month jail max penalty.  Would be the ultimate irony if they threw him in Jail for this, especially after, according to his Dad, he just got out of "Prison" 

Deport and ban him. 

Interesting we have heard nothing from the PM, especially with an election in the coming months. Imagine the non stop media if he is allowed to stay and the PM does nothing, I can tell you labours campaign now. Sco- Mo did nothing to protect you all.

I cant see them jailing him when there is no history - Mcbob hat'snot agreeing with your comments but in cases like this they look at previous history and we don't seem to have a lot of people jailed for lying on their travel forms.

Has he even produced evidence he had Covid in the last 6 months? If he did why is there evidence of him visiting kids tennis academies and taking selfies with them when he should have been in isolation? Whole thing reeks of bullshit.

DD wrote:

Has he even produced evidence he had Covid in the last 6 months? If he did why is there evidence of him visiting kids tennis academies and taking selfies with them when he should have been in isolation? Whole thing reeks of bullshit.

Well if he did indeed have covid,which i highly doubt,he had shown absolutely zero duty of care for the health and welfare of those kids,as well as the fact he was caught out not mentioning his spanish sojourn which demonstrates he's a confirmed liar.If he steps out on court for the first  round,it would be a terrible terrible look given the restrictions and compliance the aussie public has had to endure,and i've got no idea why the immigration minister Hawke is not exercising his executive powers and giving him a 1 way ticket out of the country.

royallucky wrote:

DD wrote:

Has he even produced evidence he had Covid in the last 6 months? If he did why is there evidence of him visiting kids tennis academies and taking selfies with them when he should have been in isolation? Whole thing reeks of bullshit.

Well if he did indeed have covid,which i highly doubt,he had shown absolutely zero duty of care for the health and welfare of those kids,as well as the fact he was caught out not mentioning his spanish sojourn which demonstrates he's a confirmed liar.If he steps out on court for the first  round,it would be a terrible terrible look given the restrictions and compliance the aussie public has had to endure,and i've got no idea why the immigration minister Hawke is not exercising his executive powers and giving him a 1 way ticket out of the country.

I would hazard a guess that it is partially about $$$ but also Morrison and his band of incompetents originally saw this as an opportunity to distract voters from their disasterous handling of every aspect of the pandemic by responding to the mob who didnt want Djokovich in the country. Populism in other words. Problem is the Federal Court ruled against their  process and this has blown up in their faces because if Hawke throws him out it will spark an international incident ( which is one thing Morrison is quite skilled at -  e.g France)
So my bet is that he will be allowed to stay and play . None of the parties have come out of this very well including the Vic Government and Tennis Australia. As for Djokovich, it is no surprise that he has used the loopholes in the system and he wonders why people don't love him like  Nadal and Federer.... It would be so sweet if he got knocked out by a qualifier in round 1.

Of course it's about the $ and big business! Morrison, whom is now on very skakey ground as the election draws closer, is he tried to do a John Howard trick. Which is why he made the 'rules are rules' statement. What Morrison conveniently forgot to show is the blatant inequality in his rules. Howard's little stunt worked, whereas Morrison has flopped badly. One would have to ask the question of was the govt intervention really trying? I would be strongly betting it simply being a damn sideshow! Which is probably why old Kelly was really upset!
Australians have simply been taken for bloody fools!
And to top it all off, all you lovely obliging taxpayers are paying his legal costs too!

It ain't over til the fat lady sings.

New statement on Novak’s fate: www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/novak-djoko...ce707b4e83a2e13ef26b