- including some from COVID hotspots - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Saturday launched a fresh defence about the quarantine arrangements that were agreed to by health authorities and meant this year's Australian Open would avoid being cancelled.
“There’s been a bit of commentary that ... apparently the grand slam status of the Australian Open is chiselled in stone. No it’s not," Mr Andrews said.
Why am I not Surprised 🤔
Surprisingly I am actually all for the AusOpen to go ahead, as it is showing they have confidence in the quarantine system. But what irks me is that we can’t even get our own Australian citizens home safely from interstate? How do the state reimburse our own? springst
Wow...how surprising 🙄🤯
Lock em up
Predictable and totally unnecessary.
Are we being led by a bunch of clowns?
They shouldn’t have been brought here in the first place . All about money.
Like others in this thread have point out, is money over health, and who atm really cares for tennis. Think abt the passengers who sat on that plane next to those who tested positive. FO.
What fuking idiot made this decision to go ahead with fuckung tennis is it worth us dying ?
We cancelled the F1 at the 11th hr last year, but we couldn't cancel this? Do we really need sport during a pandemic? Are we that ignorant and superficial? I'm sure there are other priorities 🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is bloody bullshit to put all of us at risk again...GO HOME
CANCEL IT. Unbelievable decisions by govt and Tennis Australia. cancelozopen
NeilEvansmail put them all back on the plane and fuck em off.
Not a great look for the Vics, when they have people who can't even get home from NSW.
Run chicken little, Run!
Do it
Put them all back on the plane and send them how. we dont want them here.
Well duh 🙄 what did you expect?!?!
2. Run for your lives people.
1200 people on 1 plane is the bigger story 😆
smh
Entirely predictable. AustralianOpen should have been cancelled but DanielAndrewsMP wants to sacrifice “this precious thing we built” for a game of tennis
Of course.
HAHAHAHAH its unbelievable.
So what happened to everyone getting on a plane supply negative test. This is what will course us to have another outbreak. So everyone in quarantine now. This is absolute bullshit. What are you going to say now Dictator Dan
What a load of rubbish to say the Australian open is under threat from other cities if the tournament doesn’t go ahead this year. It’s one of 4 grand slams that has been played for decades in Melbourne. Just admit it’s got to do with making money.
No Victorian worker or business should have to pay the price for this!!!
Not long enough apparently depending on the strain.
Wow predictable comments on here. They are in quarantine, no difference to others in quarantine
Time to pull up stumps on the Australian Open?
Uncle Dan has allowed them to enter the state? From countries with millions of infections - But won’t allow Victorians, Australians from crossing the border.
Oh, but we’d lose the Open if it didn’t go ahead! 🙄
I am deeply disappointed in the fed& Vic govt’s for bringing in these tennis players who are already sick. Look at UK you’ve engdangered us all. Secondly you should have brought the Aussies abroard b4 infected tennis people. You put $ before the health of Aussies. DISGUSTED!
These money hungry AusOpen organisers better not get us locked down again. Won't need many cases in the community for DanielAndrewsMP to do it
Surprisingly !!!!!!
players or support staff? could be an interesting draw.
rpjward This is so absurd risking Victorians health and well-being for a tennis competition. Should have been cancelled like so many other sporting events. Money before lives though right ? If we end up with another serious outbreak due to this, it’s squarely on those holding this event
Send the whole lot home again and forget the AO for now
'Tested positive' is a joke. A Portuguese court has already dispensed with this nonsense. But of course, they're only Portuguese. Well maybe the message will finally get through when Reiner Fuellmich does his thing.
Fault
That's the way,keep bringing it in so we can all lock down again,fuckheads .
Why do we need tennis on atm? Will it be missed?
Extremely disappointing. Why the AustralianOpen couldn’t have been delayed until later into 2021 is beyond me. Poor decision to have proceeded with the event in February prior to vaccination program commencing.
Screw this tennis competition
Let me guess - they were warned. Drips in to defend this crap in 5, 4, 3...
No way 😔
Well I’m shocked
Thank goodness they are in quarantine then
Pathetic yet in nsw and quuensland no virus but victorians still locked out.
Isn’t this the whole reason they have the protocols that tennis aus put in place
How many DHHS staff will be diverted to managing an entire planeload of people in quarantine? Bring home Victorians ahead of this debacle.
This was inevitable.
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