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> provided by the Australian Open tournament

They're not the Australian federal government though, so it's moot.

Whose fault is it if the tournament didn't put a process together that worked properly with the government? The people who used the process or the organization that created it?

> Whose fault is it if the tournament didn't put a process together that worked properly with the government?

Djokovic may have a claim against the Australian Open for wasting time and causing inconvenience.

That doesn't mean Canberra must grant him a visa. And it is in no way an excuse for submitting falsified documents (if he did that, which is far from proven) to Canberra and her courts.

If he is singled out while the others who successfully went through this process are not wouldn't it should some form of prejudice? Targeting a high profile player to show that a politician in more powerful, or something like that?

The dynamics here are interesting, too.

I assume others who claimed medical exemptions aren't prominent antivaxxers whose request for a medical exemption from completing a course of vaccinations (recommended spacing between doses >21 days) on the basis he was unable to because of a COVID infection less than 21 days before his flight is pretty absurd (even assuming the tests are valid and he answered all visa applications questions truthfully).

Just because the public outcry might have prompted politicians to intervene doesn't mean they were wrong to do so

When you attempt to enter a country, it is your individual responsibility to ensure yoh are eligible, nobody elses.

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