I am special...

[WTFH]

A foreigner turns up in your country without the correct visa paperwork.
If he had arrived in Britain, Priti would have sent him back straight away, we're full and sick of immigrants, right?

[SueEllen]

If you want to see asinine enforcement of brittle rules, you need to watch "Nothing to Declare".

I stopped liking it when they started to blur out the faces of stupid people.

[SueEllen]

A foreigner turns up in your country without the correct visa paperwork.
If he had arrived in Britain, Priti would have sent him back straight away, we're full and sick of immigrants, right?

Not if he had given a few million to her campaign.....

[Zigenare]

A foreigner turns up in your country without the correct visa paperwork.
If he had arrived in Britain, Priti would have sent him back straight away, we're full and sick of immigrants, right?

Not if they claim asylum.
https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

[SueEllen]

Not if they claim asylum.
https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

I don't think the World's Men's Number 1 tennis player would get away with trying to claim asylum in Britain. He wouldn't be worshipped here like in Serbia.

[d000hg]

If it was recent, that would have been fine and there wouldn't have been a story. But if it is true he's had it once, it clearly wasn't recent enough, and therefore he needed to be vaccinated before going to Australia. Just like everyone else. His choice. He's the one who's let the public down, he's the one who's made the tournament into a joke.

Quite rightly he's the one being vilified.

If he applied for and received an exemption then has he done anything wrong? Over the last 24 hours the tone has certainly shifted somewhat from blaming Novax to the ineptitude of the Australian government. It's a shambles whichever way you look at it. He should have been clearly told he couldn't play.

[NotAllThere]

If he applied for and received an exemption then has he done anything wrong?

If he really had an exemption that was valid for Australia and proof of that, and he'd filled in his visa application correctly, then no. But are either of those true? And the turning it into Australian ineptitude is just muddying the waters.

[d000hg]

If he really had an exemption that was valid for Australia and proof of that, and he'd filled in his visa application correctly, then no. But are either of those true? And the turning it into Australian ineptitude is just muddying the waters.

The ineptitude is what muddies the waters. Exemptions are anonymous and confidential so nobody can tell if it's valid or why an elite sportsman was granted a medical exemption in the first place. The waters ARE muddy, that's the whole problem - people of Oz have been grumbling for ages that celebs seem able to flout the super-strict rules. This is bringing the ineptitude to the surface and now various parties are trying to make political gain from it. Whether Djok thought he had done everything right, or thought he'd be allowed in regardless, or deliberately deceived to try and sneak in, is only one part of the story. He's highlighting the underlying problem.

[Zigenare]

I don't think the World's Men's Number 1 tennis player would get away with trying to claim asylum in Britain. He wouldn't be worshipped here like in Serbia.

Oh dear, learn to read...

A foreigner turns up in your country without the correct visa paperwork.
If he had arrived in Britain, Priti would have sent him back straight away, we're full and sick of immigrants, right?

[SueEllen]

Appears Novaxx has had Covid twice -

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-...-mess/12387086

The Adria Tour 2020 was a tournament created by Djokovic, to be held in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina between June 12 and July 5.

Then Djokovic confirmed he had tested positive, as had his wife. Troicki's pregnant wife also contracted the virus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59920379

Tennis star Novak Djokovic had a vaccine exemption to enter Australia after a Covid infection on 16 December, his lawyers say in court documents.