Djokovic

I have been a big fan of Djokovic for years, but I like all tennis players more or less.

I also am against the pressure placed on unvaccinated people in general, and I also have little regard for the Australian authorities since the beginning of covid - particularly in Victoria!

So it's the perfect storm for me.

However I accept Djokovic made too many errors of judgement which don't stand up to scrutiny. I don't expect him to be allowed to play now.

But like I said upthread they should have made it easy for him to get in in the first place and relaxed their harsh, unbearable, failed and unjustifiable rules - for everyone, including people who want to see their dying parents.

Everyone who supported pandemic restrictions seems to feel they have to double-down on the worst myopic bureaucratic regulations separating families from each other.

Maybe if some disobedient tennis player gets a taste of how unfair it is it it'll salve everyone's conscience for making people miss their parent's funerals?

Full hearing 09.30 AEDT Sunday morning which is 22.30 tomorrow night our time.

But was he not given an exemption, along with some conditions, which was already a special exception made for him, but even then still took the pi$s?

I mean he was being allowed in even without the vaccine just as long as he played ball. And the conditions don't seem to have been that onerous.

Novak v The Australian Government

No...this isn't about his travel declaration at all...From the Sydney Morning Herald...

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/australia-declares-djokovic-a-risk-to-civil-order-and-public-health-20220114-p59oex.html

"The furious debate that had engulfed Djokovic for the past 10 days – whether a recent bout of COVID-19 provided him with a genuine exemption to travel to Australia without being vaccinated – has been abandoned by the government without Mr Hawke even reading Djokovic’s extensive submissions on the question.

Instead, the case is now headed to the Federal Court and will be argued on dramatically new grounds at a public hearing before Justice David O’Callaghan at 10.15am Saturday.

Mr Hawke’s detailed reasons for his decision to cancel Djokovic’s visa for a second time since his arrival in Australia late on January 5, revealed by this masthead, portray the nine-time Australian Open winner as a menace to both public health and public order."

Exactly....and the gross hypocrisy is that they have members of their own government who have been very vocal promoting anti-vaccine sentiment.

I can't see how they can win on this ground seeing as they have not taken similar measures against other unvaccinated people.

"I can't see how they can win on this ground seeing as they have not taken similar measures against other unvaccinated people"

What other people have been in the same situation that they failed to revoke their visa?

If you think the pro-Djokovic posters on this thread are bad, you should see the ones on Twitter.

The whole lot of them need to give their head a wobble!

mayb glasso is NoVacc Jok in disguise.. 😉.. trying convince himself that "he knew nothing about the CONVENIENTLY unticked box" lollllll

"IT WASN'T ME - IT WAS MY AGENT"...

i'm knocking great craic outta this.. lol

They're odd fish the old Serbs.

The term ultra-nationalism could have been coined for them. Since the Balkan Wars too and the humiliation of Milosevic, Karadzic and Maldic in front a an international tribunal, they have shown an intense sense of national paranoia and ridiculous reactionary behaviour, like the Ultras of Red Star live in every household. Even before that, in longer history, they would have had a sense of grandiose self-importance in the geopolitics of their corner of the World, that most of the time was groundless.

And so a humiliation of Djokovic really is perceived as an attack on all Serbia, instead of the more accurate perception of a reflected shame, that Ireland would associate with Michelle Smith, for example.

However, as the saying goes, they will just have to construct a bridge over the Danube and get over it. Anyway, they have Nigel Farage over there to help them through their darkest hour, what more could they need.