(01-06-2022, 01:18 AM)madbluboy date Wrote:We're you asleep yesterday?It looks like the system was being gamed, they(someone) placed a bet they could bully their way through the system using public pressure to get a special exemption, and lost the bet!
Quote:Federal health authorities told Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley on two occasions in writing that people who were not vaccinated and had contracted COVID-19 in the past six months would not be granted quarantine-free travel to Australia.Yesterday people were blaming Dan and Victoria, and it looks like at State level politics wasn't even involved!
The emergence of two letters from the Department of Health and Health Minister Greg Hunt in November casts doubt over why tennis star Novak Djokovic was granted an exemption to play in the Australian Open by health panels set up by Tennis Australia and the Victorian government.
Yet people want to stick with yesterday's headlines even though they now appear to be proven false/wrong!
What some stated publicly over the last two days was clearly false.
Quote:According to multiple sources, the world No.1 men’s player applied for an exemption on the basis that he had contracted COVID-19 in the previous six months.They've known this for two months, it was repeated to them again on the 29th of Nov, and they still chose to roll up without an exemption, yet they claimed they had an exemption just yesterday knowing they didn't have one.
In a letter sent to Mr Tiley on November 18, Department of Health first assistant secretary Lisa Schofield said “people who have previously had COVID-19 and not received a vaccine dose are not considered fully vaccinated”.
Ms Schofield said such people would “not be approved for quarantine-free entry, regardless of whether they have received foreign vaccination exemptions”.
If this was a Chinese tennis player some would be asking for them to be instantly deported! Well maybe they should be, but so should Djoker!
Anyway, all it seems Djoker needs to do is the quarantine period, and he's good to go!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

