Can’t Say I Blame These Angry Australians

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The country is fuming over tennis star Novak Djokovic’s vaccine drama.

Photo: Matt King/Getty Images Australia: home of weird animals, half of Nicole Kidman’s accent, and now, a horde of very angry tennis fans. The collective Australian ire is currently being aimed at tennis star Novak Djokovic, who’s spent the past two weeks wheedling his way around the country’s vaccine mandate to play in the Australian Open without getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

Djokovic arrived in Melbourne on January 5, having already been cleared by Tennis Australia and local Melbourne authorities to play in the Open based on his medical exemption. Upon landing, he was held at the airport for ten hours, with immigration officials saying his visa didn’t allow for a medical exemption to Australia’s requirement that anyone who enters the country be fully vaccinated.

Regardless, a judge ruled on Monday to reinstate Djokovic’s visa on the basis that he’d been treated unfairly by airport officials by not being allowed to call his lawyer before he was interviewed. As if this development weren’t upsetting enough, news then broke that he was under investigation for lying on his immigration form, where he wrote that he hadn’t traveled within 14 days before landing in Australia, when in fact he’d been in Spain the previous day.

 

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Serbia has the same rules but don't accept Australia's? Isn't he already a tennis icon? Is wealthy. How much more attention does he need to validate himself? Walk away with you ego chastised. Accept it. There are refugee people in detention with greater need than you.

Stop DjoCovid

I think you’ll find most Australians also aren’t fans of the person whose tweet you’ve included in this article.

Novak in nearly perfect health,NEGATIVE to Covid virus! The nation, which has 67% of the overweight population, is afraid that Nole would endanger their health and infect them with a virus he does not have.

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