Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by vore on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:38AM
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The judge's opinion does not concur: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/1/10/judge-reinstates-...
All this posturing about "rules are rules" seems to be an after-the-fact finger-pointing exercise and trying to get someone to own a decision that should not have been made in the first place.
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Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by cynix on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:28AM
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Nope. Here’s a good thread summarising the original cancellation: https://twitter.com/sangpillai/status/1481906405011783682
Note that:
> No agreement, and no decision, was made on whether the ABF officer could have cancelled Djokovic’s visa under s 116 in a watertight way. All that was found was that the process he followed was deficient enough that the original cancellation couldn’t stand.
Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by roca on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:03AM
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I do not understand the "what more could this man have done?" line.
Trying very hard to meet the rules for entering a country, but not actually being able to meet them, does not normally give people the right to enter that country.
Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by vore on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:12AM
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I think the sticking point here was that he was given approval by the Victorian government which failed to communicate with the federal government. Arguably you can frame it as his fault that he did not get an assurance from the federal government, but a reasonable person would not expect the state government to have failed to secure the required assurances from the federal government.
Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by roca on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:56AM
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Failure to understand the system is also not usually grounds for being allowed to enter a country.
Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by throwaway4good on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:56AM
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Yes. Even the court says he provided the documentation required.
I don't understand how anyone can defend Australia's arbritary and vengeful border practices.
If the Australian authorities didn't want him in because he is an evil anti-vaxxer then they could have just denied visa from the get go.
Re:Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister fo...
by cynix on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:31AM
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Nope. That was a private comment made by the judge (who is obviously lacking in impartiality, since he made that comment very early on, before the two sides presented their cases). The decision to quash the original cancellation was due to agreement between Djokovic’s and the government’s legal teams, and the judge made no ruling of his own. See linked Twitter thread in the sibling comment.