People in Queensland haven’t had the same restrictions as Victoria.
They have lived normal lives apart from travel. Tough on people.like us that can’t get home but to say they are under house arrest isn’t true.
The Australian Open is played in Melbourne, Victoria, not in Queensland.
Yes, why did you say the Australian population en masse
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If you want to live somewhere for the rest of your life, then fine. It’s dystopian otherwise.
Heads gonna roll
Do we know who the other 3 are? (Didn’t read the link)
Nope. Just read that from Reuters. Would he surprising if he was the only one so makes sense.
New South Wales (by some distance) and Victoria are the two most populous states.
Quislings.
Novak’s past form in acing the complete gowl coming back to bite him. It does seem that Tennis Australia and the State of Victoria cooked up a formula last month which would have allowed him into Melbourne unvaccinated.
PM Morrison intervened in the face of a public backlash with something like 70,000 new cases a day currently and large cohort of the Australian population under effective house arrest for 18 months. If there’s any sort of separation of powers between legislature/executive/judiciary in Australia, he probably has a reasonably good case if that is the law that medical exemptions can be granted to the unvaccinated.
If Novak hadn’t organised his own Balkan tournament last year, in or around the same time that Bergamo and large swathes of southern Europe were slaughter houses, he might get a more sympathetic hearing now. When the All England Club was cancelling the Championship for the year, he was organising his own Vanity Project which turned out to be a mass spreader.
Not to mention pissing off the ATP trying to set up his own Players Association.
Nadal putting the boot into Djokovic.
Rafael Nadal’s sympathy for Novak Djokovic over his Australian visa debacle was in short supply on Thursday with the Spaniard insists the world No 1 “knew the conditions for several months”.
Djokovic’s hopes of defending his Australian Open crown are hanging by the slimmest of threads after he was denied entry into the country and his visa cancelled.
Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) regulations stipulate those entering must be fully vaccinated and the 20-time Grand Slam winner was granted an exemption based on the fact that he had Covid-19 in the past six months.
As a result, Australian Border Force deemed that he had “failed to provide appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements to Australia”.
Djokovic has been sent to a quarantine hotel while his lawyers are fighting his deportation , but fellow tennis great Nadal was asked if he’d encourage Djokovic to get vaccinated and replied: “I don’t encourage anyone. I feel everyone has to do whatever feels good for them. But there are rules, and if you don’t want to get the vaccine, then you can have some trouble.
“A lot of people have been dying for the past two years, my feeling is the vaccine is the only way to stop this pandemic. That’s what the person who understands about this says and I am no one to create a different opinion.”
He was then asked if he feels sorry for Djokovic and if he wants to see the Serbian play at the Australian Open, or if thinks he should have known better.
“I don’t have an opinion on that. I think if he wanted, he would be playing here in Australia without a problem,” he said.
“He went through another [route] – he made his own decisions and everybody is free to make their own decisions, but then there are some consequences.
“Of course I don’t like the situation that is happening. In some way I feel sorry for him. But at the same time he knew the conditions for several months so he makes his own decisions.”
I think with mature reflection that novax is in fact a witch and should be burned alive for all our sakes
Confiscating Djokovic signs now.
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Rafas thoughts on it all. This will be conflicting for many
“Rafael Nadal is a fascist.”
Novax just became the GOAT in the eyes of a few on here
Books will be next. Australia is on a slippery slope
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