Australia cancels Djokovic visa again, tennis star faces deportation

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BREAKING: Australia's immigration minister cancels Novak Djokovic's visa a second time; tennis star faces possible deportation from the country.

. It could end the Serb’s bid for a record 21st major title at the Australian Open tournament, which starts Monday.

In a decision likely to have broad sporting and diplomatic consequences, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said in a statement Friday that he had used his discretionary powers to cancel the visa again"on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.” The unvaccinated men’s tennis No. 1 saw the visa first revoked last week after his claim of a medical exemption was rejected by border officials when he arrived in Melbourne. But Djokovic won a legal appeal that allowed him to stay in the country and practice even as the threat of deportation hung over his head.Novak Djokovic during a practice session in Melbourne on Friday.

 

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Deport him

My name is David Beamon I was born April 27 1963 not just of a natural birth but also of a spiritual birth NASA scientists heard my voice through a computer called a mind reading computer I was about 3 years old when NASA scientists started torturing me I am in fear for my life

He will be remembered in History not as a great Tennis player but one that refused Vaccination.

BYE, BYE NOVAX

Some people have just lost it and are willing to risk their health or life as well as other people's health or life and do practically almost anything to deny the realities of the pandemic. They just insist on believing their lying eyes.

Get vaccinated/boosted, wear a mask, social distance & go about your business safely. Why? B/c THERE'S just NO GETTING AROUND IT. It's up to all of us to choose to come together to stop the spread to end the pandemic. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Just do right.

Shame on him.

So Alex Hawke, who I think is a conservative homophobe, has decided to deny the world a chance to see if Novak Djokovic can make it 22 Grand Slams in Australia. So dumb.

Good for you Australia!

Djokovic has won the last three AO. An AO without Djokovic while he is the number 1 ranked player isn’t really a Grand Slam tournament.

Great tennis skills not correlated to extraordinary thinkers. dumb

97+% fully Vaccinated around Melbourne. 👏👏👏 Wouldn't be fair to those folks. Sry but Bye, see ya in 23! It will be epic regardless! 👍🎾

they did the right thing.

Bravo Australia!

Enough of this bullshit. He’s not a hard to anyone at this point. Let the man do his job and play tennis. This whole thing is just absurd.

NovakDjokovic It is way past time for you to just .. go home. Idi, vamos, leave already!

Good Anti-vax self entitlement Thinks fairness is discrimination

I love how this is a complete proxy war for vaccinated people in America. The US administration should notice how much attention this story is getting because many Americans are literally desperate for accountability for anti-vaxxers. Especially “elite” ones

YES!! Send him back. Such perceived entitlement.

How are people so utterly blind that they cannot see the history of Nazism repeating itself?

Sorry but this is a ploy by the conservatives prime minister to distract from his ineptitude in dealing with the Covid crisis now engulfing the whole of Australia. We call him Trump lite.

Good.

pcrod I'm looking forward to the next press conference of his family🤗🤣

I think he knew this would happen once his false info was uncovered.

Good.

yes

Put him on a raft now past the international border. Bet even the sharks won’t like him with Covid.

No one is above the law! jacindaardern HeavenlyAvatar Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to play in this current circumstance, allowing him to play means the government has failed.DailyMailUK DailyMail

Game Point

Bye bye a**hole

Great, send this inconsiderate human being home. 🤨

Why doesn't the jerk just go home? He started it--he lied--now he should pay the consequences. No exception. Good on Australia.

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