The problems associated with omicron have been travelling at the speed of light,
The emergence of omicron was believe or not only a few weeks ago, and since then the attitude of our govt. towards this variant of concern (VOC) has been like what i would call similar to an Arsonists, it would be like a naive immature child lighting a match and throwing it in to the bush just to see what would happen.
And we can all see now what has happened, a crisis of shortage of food and workers.
But Unbelievably amongst this major crisis our Scomo is still able to spend and dedicate a lot of time to deal with a matter that concerns a tennis player?
Now, i'm certain that if Djokovic was not Djokovic but was one of Scomo's favourite footy players then none of us would have heard so much of this nonsense.
Besides Djokovic winning his case, Scomo knows that if we were to count all of the dec forms which have the wrong boxes ticked, they would be in the thousands and millions.
Scomo wasting precious time, the judge has said Djokovic is not a problem, the judge says we have a food and workers crisis.
Another great post @FinestTigers
Novax apparently knowingly did the wrong thing by 'supposedly' allowing one of his managers to fill out his exemption form.
Yeh righto...what a lot of bull imo.
If the dummy cant take responsibility for filling out the 'important' paperwork and then blaming his manager for the incorrect/untruthful information, that should be enough to have him booted out of Oz.
If someone gets stopped with a bag full of drugs trying to get into Oz and they try the... I didnt pack my bag so I know nothing about the drugs story...sorry but you are in big trouble.
It's called personal responsibility and he has shown us he is a liar and a 'dill brain' imo.
Correct me if I'm wrong but He wasn't gaining any benefit by not declaring that he went to Spain or wherever. Bringing drugs into a country and not declaring that you went to a country (which as far as I'm aware has no restrictions) are not comparable at all.
There is deception involved in both scenarios
There are about 20 things you tick 'no' to on the form. I can imagine a world class athlete probably visits 10-15 countries a year and fills in many of these. One could argue that it means he shouldn't make a mistake but more likely you just tick 'no' to everything without reading like I do. Again, I don't think he was getting any benefit out of not declaring the trip? No matter who filled it out, it's an oversight, not a reason for deportation.
All that needs to be established is whether he had covid on the 16th or not and whether he met the requirements for medical exemption. If he did, then play on. My personal opinion is that he never had COVID on the 16th and faked it to get the exemption, something that you can never really prove now. If anything, he's just exposed a loophole.
I have tremendous respect for him as an athlete. I've never seen anyone push back against adversity like him. There is something superhuman about him. That being said, his stance on vaccinations and this fake nice guy persona makes me really hate him as a person.
The guy is a goose and I have no respect for him in any way.
Didn't matter if he had Covid on the 16th or not because in any case he should not have been eligible to play because the cut off date for applications was the 10th.
Surely if he was going to fake having Covid he should have conveniently got it before the 10th and got his application in before that cut off date.
Just another bullshit thing overlooked by Tennis Australia in their desperation to have this wanker playing in their tournament.
Interesting now that there are question marks over the possibility of him breaching Serbian Covid regulations as well as possible breaches pertaining to his entry into Spain which he conveniently failed to declare on his entry documentation into Australia.
There have been a number of questions about his negative and then positive Covid result as well as questions arising now about the digital date stamp regarding this documentation.
There just seem to be so many question marks and anomalies surrounding this whole saga that would see any normal traveler have their Visa cancelled and have them immediately deported as an undesirable and dishonest individual.