Australia & Novak Djokovic case

[bluethrunthru]

The series should be null and void if they're there illegally ;)

You can imagine - " Hey Bruce - these have all got invalid visa's we should deny them entry >

Mate they are fucking shit - let the Pommie bastards in so we can batter them "

 

[Corky]

Give Australia credit, at least they have lifted their Colour Bar on non-white athletes which was an important part of controlling their borders.

 

[Blue Mist]

He tried to bend the rules. Tennis Australia are partly to blame. Not the government.
He's not a prisoner, he doesn't have to stay in his hotel (not a detention center) he can leave Australia anytime he likes.

And that is what a lot of people can't or wont understand.
'These are our laws, if you don't like them don't come.'

He can leave the country any time he wants.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

None of us know the full details yet, but I don't think it's a simple as that. He didn't need to provide proof he was vaccinated, just proof that he was exempt from vaccination. One of those exemptions is having had Covid in the last 6 months. He received exemption to play in the tournament on (presumably) that basis and then applied for a visa. Turns out this was the wrong type of visa and that receiving an exemption to play in a tournament is not the same as receiving an exemption to enter the country.

I do agree though that Djokovic is an absolute bellend AND that Australia could have handled this situation much better.

I'm obviously missing something here, he's as you say a bellend and now spending 3/4 days in what's described as a dump, I can't see how the Govt. will allow him to stay & even if he does he's going to get so much shit on court anyway.

Why not just say 'fuck it' and just go home? I'm assuming that if he withdraws his application they let him out of the country....if nothing else it'd save his parents making dicks of themselves too.

 

[Bill Walker]

Give Australia credit, at least they have lifted their Colour Bar on non-white athletes which was an important part of controlling their borders.

You'll have to explain that one.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

 

[Dubai Blue]

Why not just say 'fuck it' and just go home?

He's desperate to move ahead / not lose ground in the table of all-time Grand Slam winners. That's presumably the only reason he's bothered appealing for.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The series should be null and void if they're there illegally ;)

There would also be the novelty of seeing Australia deporting "convicts" to England ha ha ha

 

[kaz7]

over 80% of Covid deaths are people who are obese, surely it’s those people who refuse to stop eating and drinking shit that are the selfish ones by that logic

if you’re overweight you’re far more likely to need a hospital bed than someone unvaxed

surprised it’s not being pushed on MSM to make people more aware

Links , and not obscure ones , it is a risk factor but 80% ? At least you have another place for your antivax shite eh

 

[bluethrunthru]

He's desperate to move ahead / not lose ground in the table of all-time Grand Slam winners. That's presumably the only reason he's bothered appealing for.

Or he cannot accept that on this subject he could possibly be wrong