Weary of some of the world's harshest virus border restrictions, many Australians wanted Novak Djokovic kicked out of their country for not being vaccinated. The saga also underlines Australia’s complicated, and criticized, immigration and border policies.
Widespread anger followed a Djokovic post on social media on Jan. 4 that said he had been granted “exemption permission” to fly quarantine-free to Australia to play tennis. He had been approved by an automated visa application process days earlier.
“It should be the rule is the rule, regardless of your status,” McCann said. “I have nothing against him personally, but I don’t think he should be an exception.” In 2013, when a conservative coalition won the first of three consecutive elections, Morrison, the then-new minister for Immigration and Border Protection, played a key role in revamping what had seemed to many the insurmountable and politically damaging problem of daily unauthorized boat arrivals.Morrison took credit as government vessels turned back boats and asylum seekers were sent to immigration centers on poor island nations instead of the Australian mainland.
But Melbourne-based refugee advocate Ian Rintoul noted that unlike other refugees and asylum seekers who shared the Park Hotel with the wealthy celebrity, Djokovic was not handcuffed when he was escorted from the building. Djokovic had relied on exemptions from vaccine rules provided by Tennis Australia and the Victoria state government.
Those in hotel detention with Djokovic came to Australia from camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea for medical treatment and then gained a court injunction preventing them from being sent back. Some have been detained in hotels for more than two years, Rintoul, the refugee advocate, said.
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