Anyone know what is his medical exception?
If he had COVID in December then he is low risk to infecting anyone. Is the timing of him getting COVID suspiciously beneficial to him getting a medical exemption to play the Australian Open? Damn right it is but if the pcr test documentation is in order what can be done?
They have him on the travel declaration though so if they want they can send him packing. Judging by polls and public opinion in the last few days most Australians want him gone so I think thats what will happen.
That would be fun, they'd soon learn the Australian armed forces aren't like the Dutch.
Winter in Serbia or Winter in Australia?
The important word in my post was the first one.
They let those Chinese chancers with the dried chicken feet and pickled worms enter the country after they've confiscated their stash of rotten "food" and fined them for lying about bringing in food.
Wise up. I will never do something so ludicrous as coughing into my elbow. What an idiotic thing to do, and looks stupid too.
providing link to other post again but also a quick summary ->
if declared (prior 14 day travel) on form it would not have prevented entry for Djokovic so there is no actual motivation to lie on that aspect
also not considered substantive enough to be addressed in government's submissions and by informed commentators
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118479514/#Comment_118479514
Djokovic has $2,875,000 reasons to lie. People have murdered other people for far less, let alone told porkies.
but there is no proof (and actually no allegations from anyone like the Australian government) that he forged anything about his Covid Test which he used to obtain the exemption for the reason of "recent Covid"
The Australian immigration minister Hawke yesterday conceded that Djokovic actually had a valid medical exemption when he arrived last week
In a radical reframing of the case against the Serbian tennis star, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a valid medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in Australia and passing it on to others due to his recent infection.
Which considering that last week that was the very reason what they stopped him at the airport and cancelled his visa is a complete about turn / moving the goalposts on their part
"World number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic failed to provide sufficient proof to receive a medical exemption to enter Australia, prime minister Scott Morrison has confirmed."
Serbia should declare war on Australia and invade next winter. This decision cannot be accepted.
yes you're correct
I'm not disputing that in the slightest
but the point about no motivation to lie and substantivenss still is valid imo
Maybe he did. I'd still classify forging a document to say i had a disease that has killed millions of people worldwide and changed millions more lives unimaginably, just so i could play in a tennis tournament as scumbag behaviour though.
He may offload admin tasks, but he remains responsible for their accuracy. He signs the declaration.
The fact is the Australians didn't make any reference to the the 14 day recent travel box LIE / error in their submissions and statements on cancelling Djokovic's visa the second time
Informed commentators online don't place significance on it either because it's just not substantive
as explained if it was declared it wouldn't have stopped Djokovic entering
so there was no actual reason to lie
also as explained Djokovic travels very extensively every year and is one of the most prominent sports stars in the world - it's just a fact that Djokovic offloads admin tasks to other people as his job is being good at tennis, being involved in the tennis player's unions and doing other stuff like charity work.
It might be hard to relate to this for the sort of people concerned about the 10c increase in a bag of popcorn but that's just not the life of Djokovic
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.
No Father, 'tis my money, I just didn't want to fill out the forms.
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
Serbs screaming persecution because a tennis player being detained is a touch ironic for me.
You would think they'd be less keen on slanging that word around
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!
I'm pretty sure he'll automatically be banned from entering Australia for 3 years now
"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 the Sydney Morning Herald actually read the document they quote they would see that the false declaration on his Travel Declaration and the fact he ignored isolation rules after testing positive last month and then did an interview with a journalist were also factors considered when issuing the 113C(3) order, yes there is the heavy point made about anti vaccination, but it's not the only point considered.
For anyone interested here are the official court documents:-
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/djokovic/filed-documents/Sealed-Affidavit-Bannister-1512022.pdf
The 113C(3 ) detailed letter is from around page 13 onwards.
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.
That's absolutely outrageous if true. So it's not even about the Spain/Form fandango.
They simply don't like the cut of his jib?
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."
Why is Djokovic appealing? If he wins they'll just kick him out over the lies on his application.
He’s an absolute selfish **** who doesn’t give a flying fuk about anyone else … kick him out and good riddance to him… hope his career is fuct after this
I agree.
The rules were broken.
Novak v The Australian Government
He definitely will not be playing in the Aussie Open... very much looks like this from the way the legal case is going.
In fact he will be lucky he doesn't jeopardize he chances of playing in the Aussie Open for the next 3 years.
He (and/ or his team) deliberately made false declarations on his Visa application, claiming he was exempt cause he had caught Covid in Dec (which would have increased his immune defenses) >>>( this is only an exemption for Australian nationals). Plus had traveled to Spain ( no international travel is allowed for 14 days before traveling to Oz).
Turns out he had an Interview with a journalist from L'Equipe and it seems he handed out trophies to kids in Serbia all while he should have been isolating having tested positive days earlier.
Its this that really annoys me most of all, it demonstrates that he doesn't give a flying F about spreading a highly dangerous virus to anyone who crosses his path.
He should be deported asap.
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