Novak Djokovic is included in the Australian Open draw as the Australian government nears a decision on whether to deport the Serbian tennis star.
on procedural grounds that allowed him to stay in the country. He still faces the prospect of deportation — a decision that is entirely at the discretion of Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke if deemed to be in the public interest for health and safety reasons.
“That is the policy and of course we’d be expecting authorities to be implementing the policy,” Morrison said. Morrison would give no indication of how long the decision might take, with Djokovic planning to defend his Australian Open title starting Monday. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said most Australians disapproved of the nine-time and defending Australian Open champion coming to Melbourne to compete in breach of the nation’s tough pandemic quarantine rules.
The state recorded 37,169 new cases in the latest 24-hour period on Thursday, as well as 25 deaths and 953 hospitalizations.In a statement posted to his social media accounts on Wednesday, the tennis star blamed “human error” by his support team for failing to declare that he had traveled in the two-week period before entering Australia.
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