Anyone know what is his medical exception?
Mate you're floundering.
it is not a stroke of a pen. providing misleading information is breaking australian law. you just think he is so special that the law shouldn't apply to him.
This was great news to wake up to. He lied and broke the rules. Deportation is the correct decision.
Did he break the law or not? I don't think you have one rule for the wealthy and another rule for the plebs.
Border force stuffed up with how they treated him. He won his court case against this. The minister has now stepped in and used his authority to cancel his visa again, which is way OTT. This kind of ministerial intervention should only be used in very serious/exceptional circumstances...which this is not.
as walshb said
He is not some nobody.
they clearly don't think the same rules should apply to him.
I am very much for very tight, ala Australia, restrictions on allowing in anyone that just shows up.
And it seems unlike a lot of the people that share that view, I don't see any season this clown from Serbia should be allowed in.
I am sure they are gutted. 😁
In my eyes they have gained respect, even that eejit ScoMo.
They have shown the world that it doesn't matter who you are, the rules apply to you.
I would guess some places possibly like here wouldn't have the balls to do that.
BTW here is a right laugh for ye.
One of Djokovic's arguments against the immigration authorities in his court appeal was that immigration authorities did not fill out his VISA cancellation notice correctly.
Yet less than a week later he is claiming the mistake on his immigration form about not travelling was an honest mistake.
The guy is a chancer.
he
Yeah, that's why I don't understand the "rules apply to everyone" argument here when they actually have gone well out of their way to deport the guy after he won the appeal. For most normal people they would win the appeal and that would be the end of it.
So it's actually the opposite situation here where he is being specially singled out for deportation because of who he is and because of how high profile the case is. A normal person would never have their case all over international news and if a regular person won their appeal the public wouldn't even know, or care, about it and they would not be deported.
The minister stepping in here is way OTT
I could absolutely understand it if the person was a criminal, on a terrorist watchlist, or if some dangerous information was known to them.
but to step in in this instance is just wrong
the court appeal wasn't on the merits of his visa application.
On a slightly seperate issue but is anyone going to tell Australia they are not beating the virus, and i wonder how long china will continue to lockdown millions , as for this decision Australia has made a pantomime out of it all, i wonder how many times the ministry makes this type of intervention
This is my point Gmisk.
The reason he is being launched is not pandemic related. It's because he didn't account for his movements correctly.
Criteria which existed on those forms pre-pandemic.
But he had the PCR test. From a public health point of view he should be tickety boo.
I think people are having it both ways here. From a covid perspective he is as safe as a vaxxed person. Proof of positive infection etc.
They have arrived at their desired decision via the wrong route.
You want the immigration minister to publicly condone letting people stay after submitting falsified immigration records?
Whats happened here is akin to a man suspected of murder being done for not being tax compliant.
The perpetrator is punished but for a different reason to his initial arrest.
Who said that?
Him not doing what he did is not condoning anything. It’s using common sense and discretion after all the facts are considered.
and if people can’t see that, then they’re as thick as sh1te in my opinion. Or more likely, just hellbent on seeing him kicked out
I mean, technically they could throw him in jail for 12 months.
Deportation is actually a light enough sanction
He should be treated the same as everyone else, but they should have anticipated the media storm by having him land at all. Similar mixups with an unvaccinated pleb would not result in a media frenzy, and they could have quietly kicked them out. So actually what I am saying is, Djokovic is saved travel stress that a pleb possibly isn't.
I'm still not sure actually- is an unvaccinated Joe Soap who has had covid in the last 6 months allowed into the country, or not?
It's moot in this case, as the reason for his ejection is the mess up on the entry forms, I imagine (not sure this part has been specifically made clear by the minister).
I agree with what you are saying.
But the criteria they have managed to snag him on existed pre-pandemic. That's my point.
It is like getting him for having fruit in his luggage.
I honestly don't get the equivalence at all.
Regardless in this case it is the same outcome.
I think the Australian government are making their decisions based on what they believe is the popular opinion of the Australian people.
I do also think they're strategically dragging their heals when making their decisions to make it less likely he will be ready to play when the tournament starts.
My personal opinion is irrelevant. But as I've said, I've little sympathy for him.
Yes, I am hellbent on seeing him kicked out. He is an absolute prick.
I might be thick as sh1te but I'm not a right wing conspiracy nut job so I think I'm coming out OK.
I don't know what the form looked like in 2016. Did it have a field about being in other countries on your way to Australia? I would also suggest it is much more relevant now than it was then.
Ok, so it’s clear your views are based on a real dislike for the man.
None of us know him. I am not a big fan. To me he is just an exceptionally talented tennis player.
I think he had been very unfairly treated here at the end, after taking into account all the facts and all the struggles. To have the rug taken from underneath him at the very last hurdle is wrong.
the minister absolutely did not have to do this. He chose to deliberately do it. And he was wrong!
I have a real dislike for anyone who shows such contempt for the global effort to counter Covid tbh. Beyond that, he is a non-entity to me.
Did we all forget this, btw
Djokovic apologises after tournament leads to Covid-19 (rte.ie)
Read that and tell me the guy isn't rotten to the core.
Because to some he is special and anti vaxers say rules only apply to some people sometimes or some such shyte.
Except did old Novax respect the body integrity of the L-Equipe journalists when he met them, took off his mask in their presence and never informed them he was covid positive ?
It is gas when anti vax people talk about bodily integrity or some such stuff, but they show absolutely no respect for the body integrity of other people who may be very susceptible to a very contagious disease.
Sorry to tell you this Xavi6 your mother is just a pleb, a nobody, she is not the greatest tennis player in the world, she is not a hero to people who think you can change water and food properties by staring at it and concentrating hard.
PS I am sure your mother is a lovely lady.
It will be interesting to see if the authorities in Serbia do something about him not self isolating while positive...I am guessing their are fines etc?
He broke Australian immigration law? Do you think some people should be above the law?
I hadn't seen these comments before from Tsitsipas.
they'll probably give him a medal.
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