{"id":1680820,"date":"2022-10-09T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680820"},"modified":"2022-10-09T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:52:49","slug":"tennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would-be-slap-in-the-face-for-australia-ex-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would-be-slap-in-the-face-for-australia-ex-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Waiving Djokovic ban would be \u2018slap in the face\u2019 for Australia \u2013 ex-minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would-be-slap-in-the-face-for-australia-ex-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) \u2013     Waiving Novak Djokovic\u2019s visa ban to let him play the Australian Open would be a \u201cslap in the face\u201d for Australian people who vaccinated for COVID-19, opposition lawmaker and former Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Serbian Djokovic was deported from Australia in the leadup to the Grand Slam in January for declining to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The former world number one is barred from the country until 2025 but can have his three-year visa ban waived by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Australia in July scrapped a rule that required international travellers to declare their COVID vaccination status, and Djokovic has said he was hoping for \u201cpositive news\u201d on his bid to play next year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews said, however, that the rule change should have no bearing on Djokovic\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere would have been other people in similar circumstances that have also had their visas cancelled,\u201d the lawmaker told ABC Radio on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if immigration now chooses to make a special allowance for Novak Djokovic the obvious question is what are they going to do about anyone else who may be in similar circumstances?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No comment was immediately available from Djokovic. Australia\u2019s Home Affairs ministry reiterated that it does not comment on individual cases.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews said lifting Djokovic\u2019s ban would be a \u201cslap in the face for those people in Australia who did the right thing (and) got vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Why should) Novak Djokovic be allowed back into the country simply because he\u2019s a high-ranking tennis player with many millions of dollars?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be just one rule for (him) and a different rule for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who has won the Australian Open a record nine times, was unable to travel to New York for the recent U.S. Open because he was not vaccinated but said he had no regrets about missing two of the year\u2019s four Grand Slams. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Edmund Klamann)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/tennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would\/attachment\/serbian-tennis-player-djokovic-arrives-in-belgrade-after-losing-australia\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9903J-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9903J-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) \u2013 Waiving Novak Djokovic\u2019s visa ban to let him play the Australian Open would be a \u201cslap in the face\u201d for Australian people who vaccinated for COVID-19, opposition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/tennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tennis-waiving-djokovic-ban-would","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}