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Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6465 –
Voracova must be stabbing her Novak doll with needles right now. In a parallel universe in which Novak isn't a notorious anti-vaxxer, she's preparing for the Aus Open right now.

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6466 –
No special rules for sportspeople, you get vaxxed or you don't enter Australia.
Liam Jones at least was honest enough to tell the truth about his status. Novax as he is now known should have pulled out of the tournament initially and saved everyone the hassle.

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6467 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
No special rules for sportspeople, you get vaxxed or you don't enter Australia.
Liam Jones at least was honest enough to tell the truth about his status. Novax as he is now known should have pulled out of the tournament initially and saved everyone the hassle.

The court of public opinion will be interesting to see should he be granted Federal permission.

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6468 –
It'll be interesting watching Scotty from Marketing trying to deflect blame. No doubt, the Govt had the ability to exclude Djokovic and didn't.

Of course, he'll try to blame the Vic Govt but the Vic Govt was entitled to use the same framework as it uses for all other events. Indeed, it would have created a storm if the Vic Govt had set separate rules for the AusOpen as this would have been used as proof of special treatment for elite tennis players (even if they were in some ways harsher). That framework applies to those who are in the country either because they live here or because the Federal Govt has allowed them in.

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Two expert panels – set up by the Victorian Health Department and Tennis Australia – deemed Djokovic eligible for an exemption to play at the Open. However, this exemption applied only to his participation in the Open and held no legal status at the federal border where Commonwealth officials applied their own test to his exemption claims for a visa.
We need them: Tennis Australia pleaded for vaccine exemption for players, The Age.

It would be amusing if ScoMo tried to argue that Victoria should have fallen in behind the Fed Govt. After all, Victorians haven't forgotten that when we were trying to keep Covid out of Victoria, ScoMo paid little heed to our stricter requirements. He resumed international travel over pleas from Victoria and other states and then said it was Victoria's problem if travellers coming into Sydney immediately hopped onto domestic flights to Melbourne.

But a major problem for ScoMo will be that the Fed Govt never seemed to deal with the Vic Govt over the AusOpen issue. As the above article notes, the Acting Premier, Jacinta Allan, has given TA a please explain, saying TA didn't advise the Vic Govt about Hunt's comments. I'm sure if Hunt had involved the Victorian Govt, we would have heard about it by now. It almost looks like Hunt proceeded on the basis that this was a Fed Govt issue.

It also looks like TA won't accept the blame:
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Tennis Australia’s response to those reports, sent at 10.14pm on Friday, said: “We reject completely that the playing group was knowingly misled. Informing players they could get into the country on a medical exemption was taken from the Smart Traveller website that Greg Hunt directly referred us to.”

The article also notes tennis officials have privately fumed that there was further correspondence after the letters Hunt relies on and the Fed. Govt didn't make its position clear.

It's also hardly surprising Djokovic's proof of prior infection isn't all that great:
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Three sources familiar with Djokovic’s paperwork, speaking anonymously to detail confidential documentation, said evidence to support the player’s exemption was “minimal” and was only supported by one doctor.

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6469 –
And BANG!

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Federal government officials told Tennis Australia the Victorian government was responsible for assessing vaccine exemptions, according to leaked correspondence that shows Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton declared people with a prior infection could enter Victoria quarantine-free.

The new letters also show federal officials declined to check exemption applications in advance of travellers boarding planes, which could have avoided the need for Novak Djokovic’s paperwork to be examined for the first time only when he arrived at Melbourne Airport.
Leaked letters: Federal authorities advised vax exemptions were Victoria’s responsibility, The Age.

It looks like ScoMo's pathological drive to avoid taking responsibility for anything is about to deliver Djokovic a win in Court. WTF? How the hell did his government refuse to scrutinise visa applications which were clearly its responsibility?

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6470 –
Unless I've missed something it seems to me News Ltd media is using the same set of letters between TA and the Feds to explain vastly different versions of events, it's not feasible for all the News Ltd conspiracies to be correct. I don't get how they can publish such contradictory claims without being held to account, to me it's deliberately misrepresenting the facts to drum up a controversy!

God knows what they publish overseas!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6471 –
Can someone tell me anything Scomo has actually done as PM?

As far as i can tell he is very good on pointing the finger.....and going on holidays....and letting states do whatever they want.

What does he do exactly?

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6473 –
Quote from: kruddler – on
Can someone tell me anything Scomo has actually done as PM?

As far as i can tell he is very good on pointing the finger.....and going on holidays....and letting states do whatever they want.

What does he do exactly?

As far as I can ascertain, K, he's just a large sack of defecating meat... that can also walk and grin.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6474 –
Are you guys saying Dictator Dan couldn't stop Novak from playing the Aus Open whether he got in the country or not?
He banned residents here from seeing their families for months.

2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6475 –
This thread has become comedy gold.

Lots of calling a Balkan national someone of white male privilege.   Let me tell you, the WASPS who this description applies to do not see Novak as one of them.

White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

Not orthodox Christian from the Balkans.  He grew up in a war torn Serbia which broke off from the former Yugoslavia which literally translates to the land of southern slavs,  with slavs coming from the word for slaves.

He does have white skin though.

"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6476 –
Quote from: Thryleon – on
This thread has become comedy gold.

Lots of calling a Balkan national someone of white male privilege.   Let me tell you, the WASPS who this description applies to do not see Novak as one of them.

White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

Not orthodox Christian from the Balkans.  He grew up in a war torn Serbia which broke off from the former Yugoslavia which literally translates to the land of southern slavs,  with slavs coming from the word for slaves.

He does have white skin though.



My mate went there about 5 or 6 years ago and some buildings still haven't been repaired from the NATO bombings.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6477 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Are you guys saying Dictator Dan couldn't stop Novak from playing the Aus Open whether he got in the country or not?
He banned residents here from seeing their families for months.
So, you want him to be a dictator? Interesting ...

If he were to avoid being a dictator, that would probably involve applying Victorian rules regarding medical exemptions rules without fear or favour. Maybe we need the Liberals to take over so they can start making a few Captain's calls again ;) 

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6478 –
Or maybe The Federal Govt could have just enforced its own rules given it has the exclusive power to regulate entry to Australia. Just think how easily it could have done so. All it had to do was require anyone relying on a state-based medical exemption to state in the application for a visa on what ground or grounds the medical exemption was granted. In Djokovic's case, the answer would have been prior infection. Then the Immigration Dept would have refused the application for a visa. Gee, that's not hard is it?

Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

Reply #6479 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
My mate went there about 5 or 6 years ago and some buildings still haven't been repaired from the NATO bombings.

Not surprising.  Novak was born in 1987, and his nation was at war for no less than 7 years in the 1990's.  I believe there was further conflict in the 2000's too.
"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson