The men’s tennis number one Novak Djokovic has been threatened with deportation back to Serbia after his visa was rejected by Australian officials amid a mix-up with his application. There’s also the small fact that he is unvaccinated and claimed to be exempt from Australia’s rules about unvaccinated visitors, as well as the rule that only vaccinated players can compete in the Australian Open. MailOnline has more.
The No. 1 tennis star, who was left stranded at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport overnight, has been denied entry into Australia after initially being granted a medical exemption for the country’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements so that he could play in the Australian Open.
The 34 year-old was issued a letter by the Australian Government saying his visa had been denied and he would be deported, a source close to the tournament said tonight.
Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt confirmed today that Djokovic’s visa had been cancelled, and Border Force issued a statement to that effect.
“The Australian Border Force will continue to ensure that those who arrive at our border comply with our laws and entry requirements,” a statement read.
“The ABF can confirm that Mr Djokovic failed to provide appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements to Australia, and his visa has been subsequently cancelled.
“Non-citizens who do not hold a valid visa on entry or who have had their visa cancelled will be detained and removed from Australia. The ABF can confirm Mr Djokovic had access to his phone.”
Djokovic’s lawyers are now gearing up to fight the visa cancellation in court, though it is not clear if the star player will stay in Australia during the case.
Meanwhile, Serbian President Aleksanda Vucic said on Instagram that he has spoken to Djokovic and added that Serbian authorities are taking measures “so the harassment of the best tennis player in the world be stopped in the shortest possible time”.
The tennis star will now be moved to a hotel in Melbourne under police guard until a deportation flight back to Serbia can be arranged.
Djokovik, who landed in Melbourne on an Emirates flight from Dubai at around 11.15pm, was initially placed in isolation after officials discovered his team had bungled his visa application to play in the Australian Open without being vaccinated.
It came just hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison threatened to send the Serb back “on the next plane home” if he could not provide evidence for his vaccine exemption.
Worth reading in full.
Looks like it’s 30-15 to the Covid hysterics. But Djoko is a fighter so the game isn’t over.
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As a Serb, I’m surprised that he would want to play tennis in a Fascist dictatorship.
For sure… they are going to need him a lot sooner than he will need their “wicked baron” almost comedic tyranny
Imagine if Australia becomes irrelevant even in the sporting world – what will be their point? I can’t even watch the Ashes because of all the issues in that country. They have one huge big myth over covid. We have myths here too (eg the post war welfare reforms and the NHS) and both have significant consequences.
Perhaps it’s not planned that ”the sporting world” as we know it should continue once The Great Reset has been achieved.
Just when I think that Australian governments can’t possibly prove themselves more clueless… this.
”Clueless”? Don’t give them that credit. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. They’ve got behavioural psychopaths too among their ”government advisers”.
I’m not inclined to attribute this to malice. The politicians have all come out looking like fools.
‘Fools’ laughing all the way to the world bank, one suspects.
Game, set and vaxx, Australia.
Djokovic should just give them the two finger salute and return home. Their tournament would be relegated to a sub standard event and whoever ‘wins’ it would do so by default, in my honest opinion.
I won’t now watch any of the matches or follow it. In former times I would have done. This is my own personal boycott.
An interesting article on Djokovic in the Spectator Australia, 5 January:
”Don’t blame Novak Dkokovic”.
According to this, he has never revealed his ”vaccine status”.
We killed 20 million people because of a Serb killing an Austrian before, so I would not rule out WW3 being triggered by this…
And I’d definetely root for Serbia this time.
He should not have claimed an exemption but stuck to doing the right thing and stay at home.
It is also more than likely that he has been set up and played by the Aussies.
Yes, I quite agree: give the totalitarian scum an inch and they will take a light-year!
Ah, the days when we Brits used to deport people TO Australia …
The country is a joke.
Yes, and someone should land the punchline appropriately!
Feels to me like this was a setup. Approve the initial visa application and then when he arrives create a media circus and deport him as a warning to others.
He should have boycotted the tournament on principal, said he wouldn’t play in a country which violates human rights.
What a sad world when people truly believe that a man who has recovered from a disease which he did not find personally significant, is being forced to take a gene therapy which has not had any safety profile on this group. (The Pfizer trials excluded previously infected patients). The recent evidence demonstrates transmission in vaccination group is no different and he is in the group where adverse effects including cardiac are recognised.
It is total lunacy to ask him to take any “vaccination “ just to appease the Vaccination group think- immunity is not the same as vaccination status but with the non Daily Skeptic readers so predominant is there any hope?
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
I used to have Australia and NZ on my list for an extended holiday when I retire in a few years’ time. Not now; it would be like visiting the former East Germany. You couldn’t pay me to go there.
There are many people fighting this tyranny. Those need support – don’t write them off just yet.
In NZ there’s the group ‘Voices For Freedom’ who are doing some great work. Look them up and see how much support they’ve got.
Yes – great website!
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt seems to be the one issuing a lot of comments to the press. The same Greg Hunt who was hospitalised the day after taking the Astra Zeneca vaccine in March…?
The same Greg Hunt who is pushing the vax while he prepares to exit parliament at the upcoming election. First rat off the ship!
Nazi Olympics.
Now he’s the “Eastern European” black man.
All this fuss over a cold! So what if he’s unvaccinated anyway?
I wish he’d refused to play their bureaucratic games and simply refused to participate under these conditions.
Wow, Australia going all out to embarrass itself internationally over nothing.
Those po-faced official announcements make me cringe.
And he came to play in the Australian ‘Open’….
Might as well let Red China invade Australia and take the minerals and vineyards, they might get a better government in exchange.
A lot being made on here about Djokovic’s nobility. But surely the more noble course would have been to boycott and hence devalue the tournament, and even speak out about the reasons why he is (evidently) unvaccinated? The man is by box office so will sway many minds – the same way Herr Jurgen Klott does on the other side of the argument.
They might have offered him exemption to get him there. We don’t know.
See my comment above. It speaks of how they grant ”blind”exemptions.
According to Spectator Australia, he has never revealed his ”vaccination status” saying it was nobody’s business. The article is worth reading on their website, dated 5 January.
Could see this one coming from a mile off and shows how disingenuous the Australian authorities have been. To grant exemption and then rescind it, leaving him stranded at the airport is a deliberate act of humiliation towards the best tennis player in the world. Jump on the next flight home Mr Djokovic and publicly vow never to visit that country again.
To call them ”disingenuous” is doing them FAR too much credit. These are manipulative and self-serving people, with evil intent, obviously paid well to swallow any scruples they might have had.
It would be useful if competitors would voluntarily cancel their involvement in this shit show. That would make Australia look like the great place it has become.
If you win a Tournament, but you didn’t beat the best player, does anyone really care that you won (or even played)?
I hope he really digs in on this topic and makes loads of noise – he’s earning my respect beyond his tennis ability.
I’m sure many will villify, but he’s not going to go down quietly and I’m sure many will be fascintated.
Wasn’t the Australian tennis tournament once referred to as “the Open”? Seemingly no longer.
Henceforth, we shall have to call it the “Australian Compliance cup” – part of the grand sl(h)am series
He’s tried to sneak in by bending the rules, which does not really speak for integrity of his character. If anything, he’s fallen into a trap they set up for him.
How do you know they didn’t offer him the exemption concerned realised he wasn’t compromising his personal health for a few games of tennis on the arse end of the world.
moron
And how do you know that he hasn’t been playing them at their own game? I would if I were him. Taking it to the wire and thus building up the hysteria to embarrass them.
And how does a person of integrity fight fascism?! By obeying every single one of their rules?!
No, you fight them by disobeying them, at least some of their rules and laws, even at high risk and cost to you!
It is even more so if the rules fascists put in place are not only bad because of the intrinsic, bad nature of fascism, but because of other grave dangers.
No mistake. This is a big propaganda piece about no matter who you are you will not participate in normal life without getting jabbed. This will be worldwide news and serve its purpose for the puppet masters.
These dumb fucks have created a martyr now. They really are as thick as pig shit aren’t they? Can’t wait to listen to his first interview on this. Hope he never returns to oz.
Don’t worry, they will just give him covid and publicize “told you so” sort of propaganda, and make him repent. Already happened to one prominent German soccer player.
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Wrong face. Should be Nadal’s
Djok refused to admit he’s not a Vegan and a Vaxxer.
He’s up against Net Zero, Big Pharma and the WEF. He’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Can you imagine the world number one tennis player being treated this way two years ago? Sometimes you have to pinch yourself to make sure the whole thing isn’t a ridiculous nightmare.
With the way Australia is going, you’d have better chance of crossing the border of their political counterparts in North Korea.
In the same way the majority like a white population in the UK has been slowly smashed, so in turn has a new majority who think they can discriminate against others on whatever ground they fancy been formed…….the jabbed sheep
Yes, and the ball started rolling back in the late 90’s when the newly knighted crook Trotsky Tony arrived. No coincidence political clones of the scum bag sprouted up all over the once civilised world to wreak havoc on the white populations. We’re now seeing the dire consequences of this Crime Syndicate.
It is good this is so mainstream as it is making more people ask wtf is going on. They’ve fucked up badly not letting him in.
What are the odds this player lands in hospital in Australia with Covid? And what are the odds he can’t pay his way if he does?
So what exactly is the point this pathetic tinpot, autocratic, totalitarian excuse for a country is trying to make?
Actually, the odds of a politically manufactured false positive test putting him into Australian hospital with “covid” are pretty high. They want to make an example of him one way or another. I would be careful if I was in his shoes – recall what happened to a certain Mr. Navalny.
Wonder if they have found someone with a positive test to spit on his food?
(Which would, of course, be absolutely beyond DISGUSTING, but these are the kind of tactics these people would use in the propaganda war that this is).
Make no mistake – I absolutely abhor what has happened to Nolo and how he is being treated. No one should be treated this way because they refuse to reveal their medical status.
Sadly for him, Nolo is now being treated like all the other little people embroiled in this human rights steal, not like a member of the elite. I hope it is making him rethink his original decision to accept the exemption and try to enter Australia to play the tournament. I think that it has played badly for him. He could have used his massive influence all around the world to put not just Australia but the whole plandemic under a very unpleasant spotlight and he has squandered that.
Someone yesterday made the pithy point to me in response to this argument that ‘you cannot elect someone to a position they didn’t choose to stand for’.
In response I quote back the words of Nolo’s… Read more »