The Australian Authorities has been given the meme therapy amid its ludicrous dealing with of world primary tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa after it emerged the Serb was unvaccinated.
A unbelievable breakdown in communication between state and federal authorities, together with loads of political posturing, has resulted in a significant unforced error for the nation which has a number of the world’s strictest Covid restrictions.
Djokovic touched down in Melbourne on Wednesday, one week forward of the Australian Open predominant draw.
Regardless of having publicly declared his opposition to vaccination, the tennis phenom was in possession of a visa permitting him to finish and a medical exemption from the vaccine – to not point out pure immunity having lately overcome Covid.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who’s beneath excessive strain in an election 12 months having applied extreme and very unpopular lockdowns and vaccine passports – first deferred the accountability of imposing Covid guidelines to the state of Victoria.
He then determined simply hours later that the federal authorities will get to regulate who is available in and in a foreign country and that everybody – together with world well-known athletes, should abide by its tyrannical restrictions.
‘Guidelines are guidelines,’ Morrison mentioned.
Djokovic was lastly launched from detention earlier right this moment and made his method to apply at midnight in Melbourne – simply as Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke introduced he might nonetheless tear up the tennis star’s visa at a second’s discover
Djokovic was lastly launched from detention earlier right this moment and made his method to apply at midnight in Melbourne – simply as Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke introduced he might nonetheless tear up the tennis star’s visa at a second’s discover.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who’s beneath excessive strain in election 12 months having applied excessive lockdowns and vaccine passports for journey – has confronted a significant backlash for the federal government’s therapy of tennis participant Novak Djokovic
Serbian tennis followers march alongside Collins Avenue on January 10, 2022 in Melbourne, in assist of Novak Djokovic following his launch from a refugee detention centre
Serbian tennis participant Novak Djokovic’s uncle Goran, mom Dijana, father Srdjan and brother Djordje attend a information convention in Belgrade, Serbia, January 10, 2022, wherein they admonished the Australian authorities’s therapy of the tennis star
Djokovic’s visa was revoked and he was transported to a ‘torturous’ migrant detention centre to await deportation… just for a choose in Victoria this morning to overturn the federal government’s resolution to tear up his visa.
‘Guidelines are guidelines,’ mentioned Choose Anthony Kelly, upon ruling that border brokers who gave Djokovic simply 20 minutes to supply extra documentation to assist his visa at 4am had acted unreasonably.
‘Said in different phrases: these guidelines weren’t noticed.’
Djokovic was lastly launched from detention earlier right this moment and made his method to apply at midnight in Melbourne – simply as Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke introduced he might nonetheless tear up the tennis star’s visa at a second’s discover.
The saga rumbles on, with Hawke-Eye’s resolution nonetheless within the offing. However within the eyes of the web, the farce has already gone on lengthy sufficient.
Listed here are a number of the high photographs from the motion thus far.
