Just heard the latest report and looking very shoddy and bad for the tennis company. It now appears some players were given the wrong advice on entry requirements according to the latest leaked information. Even after the health minister wrote and advised tiley last november of the entry criteria! However still doesn’t answer the question why the public were told one thing, and yet privately it was exactly the opposite!
Tennis Australia showing they are just driven by complete self interest and the extra dollars that Novax may have brought in, rather than putting the health of Australians first. Another elitist group who believe they are above the law.
Interesting to not see any of the so called experienced journalists not asking the obvious question. They’ve danced around it!
This one guy has really exposed the hyprocacy, double standards and failings of this country for all to see. I suppose he can be thanked for that?
Noticed the Victorian state govt trying to distance themselves from the furore.
Going to be interesting hearing the final wash-up of this silly saga. I suppose the relevant people will do as always and try sweep it under the carpet. The public will get told it was no-ones fault- " it just happened"
What’s this shit about being ashamed to be an Aussie??? Do you really think we are the only country to have a management fkup? People are jumping off the wagon really easily. I would be ashamed of myself if I made a statement like that…..I’m proud to have the privilege of being an Aussie.
DJOKOVIC,who was granted an exemption by the misinformed chief australian open medical official, on the basis he had contracted Covid in the last 6 months which allowed him entry into the country and tournament,has quite interestingly been photographed at a Serbian awards ceremony on DEC.17th,which is a day after he claimed he contracted Covid,which apparently triggers an automatic 14 day quarantine in his homeland…what a bloke.
Now they are saying one of the forms he submitted is a dodgy self downloaded form re his alleged Covid infection that will likely carry absolutely no legal weight. Sounds dodgy dodgy dodgy, but that’s from the West, so who knows what the real facts may be.
I’m well and truly over these Prima donnas that believe they should always receive special attention and treatment.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/immigration/no-vax-djokovic-visa-denial-unfair-lawyer-c-5234740
[quote=“Senior Seagull post=215896 userid=922”]Now they are saying one of the forms he submitted is a dodgy self downloaded form re his alleged Covid infection that will likely carry absolutely no legal weight. Sounds dodgy dodgy dodgy, but that’s from the West, so who knows what the real facts may be.
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I wonder what that means SS? Are people in the loop saying he could win the Court case?
Yes if that happens, it is a pity Morrisons “rules are rules” are not being applied equally! While most aussies were left stranded overseas and unable to return home and separated from family, the rich and well known have been allowed to jet in and out with ease. Obviously not much changed. Although with a federal election getting closer, old morrison is now walking on a tightrope.
Tennis Australia think they are running border force, absolute idiots.
The Joker is free. The joke is on Australia. I hope the crowds give him shit and it is relentless.
Off on a technicality, on the day of his arrival Border Force told Novax at 5.20am he could have until 8.30am to provide comments in response to the notice to cancel his visa. BF then sort his comments at 6.14am instead and then made the decision to cancel at 7.42am, so Novax was denied the full amount of time that BF stated they would give. Someone will be looking for a new job after that sort of stuff up.
But it’s not over yet, The BF/Govt silk has been instructed by the Immigration Minister that he may consider using his “personal power of cancellation” based on new grounds. If the minister does do that and Novax is deported, he also faces a 3 year ban on re-entry
Watch this space.
So the Judge asks - “what more could this man have done”?
How about getting vaxxed like the rest of us you flog
A second thing he could have done was ring old tiley. The conversation could have gone like " I notice you said it’s only vaccinated players allowed to participate. I respect your decision. See you next year"
No doubt the football farce and now this ridiculous situation will bring a smile to the anti vaxer twits faces. As had been said here many times before, you couldn’t make this shit up.
Policies on the run at both state and federal level will always end up with issues.
The irony about all this, is the exemption was given on the basis he had recovered from the Covid he supposedly contracted last year on dec 16,which triggers an Automatic 14 day serbian quarantine,yet more footage has emerged of the shady prick attending various functions unmasked in the ensuing days after his supposed infection,which makes a mockery of this whole debacle.
Worse thing about all this is it makes this shonk and pin up boy for all the anti vax nutters and emboldens them.
So the court hasnt actually ruled that he has a valid exemption? only that he wasnt given enough time at the border to argue his case?
Doesnt change the fact he isnt vaxxed - so cancel his visa and deport his ass. Send those street thugs with him.
Sounds like the Feds dropped the case and the details of his medical exemption were not really tested in the court.
This goose and court decision has the potential to create a very dangerous precedent if allowed to stand by the federal government.
- Anyone unvaccinated who’s had covid in the last 6 months is entitled to be exempt from being vaccinated and that includes Australian citizens and permanent residents not just those coming in from overseas. And…
- Those fully vaccinated being denied entry from overseas are entitled to be totally pisssed off.
If the Australian government allows this to stand then I hope the courts are flooded with similar applications and anyone unvaccinated who’s had covid in the past 6 months is entitled to demand that they are exempt from being fully vaccinated, therefore entitled to be treated the same.
This is dangerous ground the government is sitting on if it sits on it’s hands and doesn’t use it’s ministerial powers to override the court decision. And this goose should be treated no different to those we see on Border Force who are banned from entering Australia for 3 years.
How many tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Australia have tested positive for covid in the last 6 months and are unvaccinated?