Australia has cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time, the nation’s immigration minister introduced on Friday.
Officers mentioned the world tennis No. 1, who’s unvaccinated for COVID-19, might pose a threat to the group.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used discretionary powers to once more cancel Djokovic’s visa, after a court docket quashed an earlier revocation and launched him from immigration detention on Monday.
‘Immediately I exercised my energy beneath part 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on well being and good order grounds, on the premise that it was within the public curiosity to take action,’ Hawke mentioned in a press release.
Melbourne’s The Age newspaper earlier on Friday cited a supply in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal Occasion as saying the federal government was ‘strongly leaning’ in the direction of revoking the visa once more.
The tennis star was going through mounting criticism for his actions, together with from different tennis gamers set to participate within the Australian Open subsequent week.
Greek world quantity 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas mentioned Djokovic was ‘enjoying by his personal guidelines’ and making vaccinated gamers ‘appear like fools’.
‘No-one actually thought they may come to Australia unvaccinated and never having to comply with the protocols … it takes quite a lot of daring to do and placing the grand slam in danger, which I do not suppose many gamers would do,’ Tsitsipas mentioned in an interview with India’s WION information channel.
An internet ballot by the Information Corp media group discovered that 83 p.c favoured the federal government attempting to deport the tennis star.
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