That means only vaccinated travellers from Serbia can travel there unless they have aHistory still beckons at Melbourne Park
He's not the first — it seems like an eternity since Serena Williams, who is for so many a greater player of all time, has won a grand slam title. Djokovic at 34 years of age isn't there yet, and he looked extremely vulnerable as he chased the Golden Slam of all four majors and the Olympic title last year.
And the Health Minister Craig Tilley, sorry did I get the name wrong.
Wasn’t he disqualified from the 2020 US Open for hitting a line judge with a ball? Now the French have announced sports professionals must be vaccinated
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Thankfully we have strong leaders who saved us from Novak
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. . Why is this labelled as 'analysis' and not 'opinion'? Ridiculous conclusions attempting to whitewash facts and insert propaganda. .
FINALLY a decent, truthful article about this whole saga instead of the woeful, almost antivax, rubbish has been hypocritically publishing in a blatant effort to attack the federal gov (and I’m no fan of them either but let’s not side with alt right just to score points)
AO lost its prestige
What an absolutely riveting and one-sided analysis of the world number one's predicament! The only thing that cost him his shot at history was the embarrassing actions of the Australian government and its brainwashed, vaxxed minions.
good riddance.
Now how about focusing on the billions we are wasting on the indefinite detention of genuine refugees just to appease some very vindictive petty cruel lnp ministers GameOver HometoBilo refugees
Good report. This statement by Tsitsipis is telling: “No-one really thought they could come to Australia unvaccinated and not have to follow the protocols… it takes a lot of daring to do and putting the grand slam at risk, which I don't think many players would do.' Djokovic
The fact he donated $millions to Italian, Spanish and Serbian CoVid-19 Hospitals + BushFire Relief and $1million to the A.0 juniors.....says who he really is. This government are nothing but a disgrace.
All these red herrings about forms and other things. He was given a visa. Border Force unlawfully detained him. The visa was cancelled on the grounds that he presented some danger to Australia after he embarrassed Border Force and the government. There is no other issue.
No, we blame the government. What risk did a recovered COVID patient pose? 😂 “sCiEnCe”
Ummm, I think he only has the Australian Government to blame.
Just as if given enough time a bunch of monkeys could come up with the works of Shakespeare, the ABC finally comes up with some real truth. If only you could do that far more often.
Scapegoating the world’s number one tennis player because of a losing PM is a travesty. Morrison has to go.
“Only”? Really? You really can’t think of any other alternative to blame?
The Government gave him a visa and then withdrew it unilaterally when he was in mid air. Border Force then tried to bully him into leaving on the next plane out. He was then kicked out based on one BBC article. There is only one entity to blame: the Morrison Federal Government.
He can blame the child traffickers needing a shadow actually!!! For none of them got a single fine since his mate who helps him traffic in mexico, Scotty boy told them not to touch his little traffickers children...
Last year he quarantined in Adelaide for 14 days. This time, no.
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Why did ScottMorrisonMP issue the visa in the first place, only to turn around and slap him in the face? 💭 Take a long hard look at the anti-vaxxers in Morrison’s cabinet. Djokovic was used, this government knows it and have embarrassed Australia. CNN AusOpen Djokovic
'Scott Morrison has left the door open for Novak Djokovic to return to Australia without having to wait out a three-year ban'. Right, so just after strenuously insisting that there are no exceptions, ScoMo raises the prospect of ... an exception. Way to confuse things even more.
Should never have been issued a Visa ! tennisaustralia novaxdjokovic AustralianOpen2022 AusPol2022
TA and the Vic gov have a lot to answer for trying to find a loophole and it back fired, however, Djokovic has also got egg on his face thinking he could get away with it.
His 3 year ban might not even happen. It depends on what his visa is that he applies for and if that criteria is required to be met in the future and his circumstances that he provides
No body cares about white privilege tools
I really don’t think we need any more ‘analysis’ of this issue, ABCNews!
Next week: SkyBC analyses 'Why is water wet?'
Seems like a pretty fair analysis to me...time to move on.
Absolutely. And along with Mr. Djokovic, the boss of Tennis Australia should have taken some moral responsibility too.
Some very uneducated comments here.
'it is the Serb's desire to march to the beat of his own drum that has cost him...' Anyone concerned that personal beliefs is such a threat to our 'free' society?
The Australian government did not want an unvaxxed player winning the tournament, so they deported him. Simple as that! They didn't think it would be a good look and might encourage anti vaxx sentiment.
He went from Serbian hero, to world's worst Serbian embarrassment and the comments by Serbian President and his parents and some serbian supporters have made Serbia the bad joke of the world. Anti vaxers during the current covid surge should be charged
Was this article written by Alex Hawke?
This was a well written article. I wonder how the French will react when Djokovic again demands to be treated like a princess to enter France and play in the French open.
Yet we have a PM who believes playing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' at Church prevents global warming.
Who and what is 'Paul Johnson'?
16th December covid infection, regardless of his thought crimes sensible policy would recognise he has more immunity than most of the population….
don't worry, he will clean-up all the records in tennis soon. there is also no guarantee that the australian open will continue remain as one of the grand slams either forever!
What seems to be getting overlooked is the question of whether a policy that requires people to be vaccinated before entry has any legitimate worth. What does it achieve? Covid is far beyond a level of control anyway.
I love how quickly we miss the forest for the trees. Also how quickly we’ll clap for an immigration detention policy that violates human rights.
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