Djokovic

providing link to other post again but also a quick summary ->

if declared (prior 14 day travel) on form it would not have prevented entry for Djokovic so there is no actual motivation to lie on that aspect

also not considered substantive enough to be addressed in government's submissions and by informed commentators

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118479514/#Comment_118479514

no you're just making that up

the medical exemption, which 3 other people also got in respect of the Australian Open (and they were let in no problem to Australia using it) was about an exemption to vaccination

As yesterday the Australian immigration minister Hawke himself conceded that Djokovic did in fact have a valid medical exemption that would fairly effectively cover that off (despite the fact that Australia last week cancelled his visa claiming that he did not have proof for this exemption but now they are arguing different reasons)

you should take a look at this to get a better idea

as said 3 other people got into Australia ahead of Djokovic no problem using the same exemption. more people applied also.

while Djokovic was in the air on his last leg to Australia the actual prime minister of Australia described very clearly how the exemptions work (and basically how they worked in the case of the people who got in ahead of him)

So he very clearly outlined this.

Then Djokovic arrives and the Australian government (due to some media chat about Djokovic coming over on the exemption) decides to exempt the exemption in his case

They (government) stopped him on the basis that he didn't have enough proof for his exemption and cancelled his visa and kicked all this off

there was nothing about the Serbia social media stuff at that time - that came much later so at the point in time the government went out to get him for political gain it's not in the picture

Now the government have conceded that he HAD a valid medical exemption on arrival but are using a law 113(c) that is a law that denies natural justice - so unlikely to be overcome. basically it's a "I said so and there is no comeback" type law

they stopped him due to political motives due to media interest in him coming on the exemption - and tried to make it up as they went along

the other people getting in ahead on exact same basis shows that

also as shown by the original "reason" being abandoned for the nuclear 113c law and the stuff in that age article linked

that has proved to be rubbish and the government conceded the same since by agreeing that he had a valid exemption on arrival and have abandoned that track completely

that's just the story put out "proof of exemption" because they couldn't think of what else to stop him on

first they put out that it was a visa error then changed to proof of exemption then also that oh he only had one piece of proof - yes you only get one positive pcr test when you do a test.

the judge also made the comment on the process that Djokovic followed and the proof

"what more could this mad have done"

Djokovic was screwed over

as said he would never have been going near Australia except him meeting the requirements and being told how the process works (as the bloody PM said in the quotes)

anyway I've made my position clear on this - little point in going on in my view

he broke the isolation rules on the sports photoshoot - shouldn't have done that.

can't argue that he wasn't wrong there

but that is not pertinent to the Australian debacle - that was weeks before he came to Australia and in Serbia

trying to frame it as "fooked either way" has been done to death already

he was wrong there

that's it

the test has not been proven to be fake (despite proved bullshit Der Spiegel stories etc) and the Australians have accepted is as genuine

all too hyperbolic to engage with tbh and been through it all before

such hyperbolae and utter fake moralising here is a laugh I have to say

Australia never knew it had so many defenders of its borders on boards until now

no literally they have all been done before but some reason the same stuff is just posted again but some other person because they think they have something new to say but don't

the basis presented by immigration minister Hawke along with his 113c is

• public health - even though Hawke conceded that Djokovic is not a spread risk -
• good order - that Djokovic is going to excite anti-vaxxers is Australia depsite him not having said anything about vaccines since they became available, organised a vaccine drive this year at the Serbian open and the fact that well over 90% of Australians are vaccinated

neither make rational sense.

original argument that they have completely abandoned because they conceded it was untrue

if they wanted to keep Djokovic out they should have told him before he travelled instead of telling him yes you've got the exemption and flip-flopping and ambushing him at the border when he arrived, making up any old an argument that they abandoned later and now having to resort to a law of no natural justice recourse

and all the the muppet PM Morrison (who is as slimy as Leo Varadkar after being sprayed with cooking oil) can even come up with is rubbish pandering about "protecting sacrifices" .

the place is riddled with Omicron - there is nothing to protect in respect of Covid.

He's just playing up to the average hipster muppet over there and their lack of self-awareness - "we're blocking that tennis player for the time you couldn't go out to get your coffee".

conflating two things that have nothing to do with each other -> that very government's pandemic policy that the people endured and a fooking tennis player!

the Australians created all this and they look like arses on the international stage

hun if you're saving up for a packet of popcorn you're just never going to understand Djokovic's world