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By JOHN PYE MELBOURNE©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jay
In Queensland right now you can go to a gym, vaxxed or unvaxxed, take a spin class, sweat and breathe on each other in an enclosed room for an hour, and that's okay. But you can't let a medically-exempt player from entering a tournament, and instead, send him home. It's an embarrassment, it's un-Australian, and people are waking up.
Whatever they've been doing for the last two years has not been working. Time for a snap election, let's get in someone new.
serendipitous1
Yeah, he's 'medically-exempt' because he has already been infected with one Covid variant and doesn't want to be vaccinated. That doesn't cut it. But it's not his fault personally, it's his team's fault for assuming they could submit dodgy paperwork and get away with it.
tooheysnew
this is the state that locked out its own people from returning home from other states. They were forced to camp at the border for months, waiting.
Queensland also refused entry for relatives of dying people, & for people who needed to receive medical treatment.
Steve
Queensland also refused entry for relatives of dying people, & for people who needed to receive medical treatment
yes, but he is Djokovic the number #1
Tennis player in the world.
ulysses
He is free to go back whenever he wants, so spending the religious holiday on his own is djokovic’s choice!
He can experience first hand what nut jobs like him have unleashed on this world!
stormcrow
Just send the guy home already! Why's he still there Does he expect to be treated differently from everybody else? Probably. People like Djokovich and Rodgers don't think rules apply to them.
HEY! I'm the defending champion. I demand to be allowed to PLAY!
Gimme a break!
Sal Affist
He has a court hearing on Monday. He can hire the best barristers in Australia with his funds, but unlike southeastern Europe, there is no chance of slipping the judge a little incentive for a favorable decision.
I hope he succeeds, because a tennis major without Novak will always have an asterisk after the winner's title. His competitors need to beat him, not have him unable to play, in order to claim a true victory.
Jay
From recent recall.. 48 hours ago, didn't that Victorian minister assure us Novaks request was examined by 2 independent medical panels and approved? Where is that minister now?
Another win for Teflon Dan.