Novak Djokovic’s Australian Calvary is beyond whether he could start in the first Grand Slam of the year and triumph in Melbourne for the tenth time. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confident when he promised tough action on the entry of the Serbian athlete, but he also seems to have sneaked himself out.
Although they have already drawn for the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic his fate is still in the hands of the Australian Minister for Immigration. The Serbian tennis player entry calvary became a political issue after Scott Morrison his government may have thought he could reap political benefits from the case for the May elections, demonstrating that not only Australians should suffer because of the extremely strict rules imposed because of the coronavirus epidemic, but the consequences should be borne by all entrants. But the fact that Djokovic was allowed into the country and then sent to a hotel, which he could leave after the court’s decision, was an unforced coercion from the government known for its tough anti-immigration policy.
For months topic of conversation was in the world of tennis to see if the world would start at the 2022 Australian Open. In the absence of the coronavirus epidemic, it would not have been an issue, as he was the nine-time champion of the tournament, he also won the last three entries, but only vaccinated players can take part in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, while the Serbian kept secret whether he received vaccination. In the end, it turned out not, but the organizers he was granted a special permit to leave.
Djokovic posted a photo of a Spanish airport on its way to Australia last Thursday on its way to Australia. A flood of hatred rushed through the comments, which is nothing new, as he is not only one of the best, but also one of the most divisive tennis players. What has not been the norm, however, is that the Australians began to attack because of its anti-vaccination, although it was not yet known at the time that the Serbian tennis player had been released from the vaccination obligation during his December Covid infection. violated quarantine rules.
The resentment toward it is not surprising after the island nation imposed one of the strictest entry rules in the world after the outbreak of the coronavirus, and apart from more or less omissions over the past two years, Australians have had to live under constant restrictions. As a result, tens of thousands of families have split up, some of whom have not been able to visit their relatives in Australia since 2020.
The country has now been hit by epidemic fatigue. More than 90 percent of the population over the age of 16 has been vaccinated, and although the government has promised that if they cross 80 percent, everyone will get their old life back,
The natural human reaction to this is: what was the point of the suffering of the past period? In such a public mood, the last straw is to let an unvaccinated athlete into the country just because he is famous and can break records at the Australian Open.
After the state of Victoria still granted Djokovic an entry permit, this was overwritten at the airport and the player was escorted to a quarantine hotel. He had to wait five days here until a court verdict was released, as the judge said Australian border guards had not given a sufficient explanation as to why the Serbian tennis player ‘s visa had been revoked. Djokovic may already be training this way, but it is still not certain that he can start in the Grand Slam tournament starting on Monday, because the immigration minister may deport him from the country on his own authority.
It is a question of why the Australian government allowed Djokovic to fly into the country if they did not want to give him a visa. With a week full of developments in the international press,
Australians have had zero tolerance for illegal immigrants over the past decade. Those who try to enter the country are immediately detained and then temporarily transported to third countries, mainly Nauru and Manus, as well as Papua New Guinea: this is done on the basis of their contractual agreement.
There are basically three options for asylum seekers after they have been taken prisoner. They are either deported, they are looking for a third country to host them, or they stay there in the refugee camps until their application is processed. But under Australian law, they can bribe in immigration centers indefinitely. What Djokovic has gone through, then, is nothing compared to what refugees experience when they target Australia.
With general elections being held in Australia in May, the prime minister may have been riding Djokovic’s request to try to get voters with tough border defenses. But he hardly expected that the Serbian class would fight this to the extreme, and the court. Morrison, meanwhile, is being criticized for taking sham measures against the epidemic when hundreds of thousands of people get the disease every day.
The prime minister is therefore faced with a difficult decision: either attack with doubled force or let go of it all and let Djokovic compete for his 10th cup at the Australian Open starting on Monday. The former scenario can occur if Alex Hawke Australian Immigration Minister is denying Djokovic a visa, which he can do for even the slightest offense under the law. This is a serious puzzle for the government, and the deportation of one of the world’s best-known athletes would surely stir up a bigger scandal than ever before, while many are waiting to set an example for Djokovic, who is vomiting rules against the epidemic.
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