Respect to Mr. Judge Kelly! I was pleasantly surprised.

January 10th, 2022 at 12:05 pm

VP. It’s not over. You need to worry about the Immigration Minister. I think he’s gunning for joker.

January 10th, 2022 at 12:44 pm

Giles,

I am very aware of that😉. That win was already enough for me.

January 10th, 2022 at 12:51 pm

Love how people are calling brutal actions by border force – simply procedural error.

I am being sarcastic of course. I would certainly like for Nole haters to go through procedural error once just to see how it feels.

Imagine if China jailed sportsmen who come at the winter Olympics for not being jabbed by Chinese vaccine.

January 10th, 2022 at 2:09 pm

To quote Nigel Farage, who is in Belgrade, if minister cancel Nole’s visa, which he might as well do, would mean that arbitrary power will win over the rules of law.
I don’t know in how many countries unqualified minister car override decision of highly qualified, not any court, but Federal court judge, in Australia it can.
If they decide to cancel it, which lot of legal expert and former high ranking government officials are advising them not to do, they are risking even more embarrassment. All the polls are showing that support for this government is sinking like Titanic, they are facing massive defeat at this year elections, they were hoping to pick up political points on Nole but it backfired.
Nole has limitless resources to fight them, if they cancel the visa they will have to arrest him, meaning back to Federal court, all the media is waiting for that, but this time it will be public arrest that will be broadcast all over the world, Australia is already laughing stock around the world, do they need more of the same?!
Nole is not some poor bugger who was turned back at the airport and told if he disagrees he can go to court, knowing that he can’t afford to go to court. AO itself becomes completely unimportant, besides, there is a real possibility that quite a few players would boycott AO, of course, not Nadal.

Whether you like it or no, Nole won court battle, this win is more important than any of his previous wins, he is gaining respect and support from the people around the world that actually don’t even watch the tennis.
As the time is passing there is a less and less possibility that they will do it, I think it was planned to be done immediately after court finishes, if government loses, but Nole legal team was smart enough to bring him during hearings in their office building and to keep him 4 hours there after ruling was read, since judge gave the four hours to do that, but warned the, even they had right to so, not to do it. I was watching the stream last night, exactly at 21:00 black (4 hours after ruling) black Audi arrived in underground car park and in the next few minutes Nole left the building in that very Audi.

His legal team tore into the pieces government, their barrister looked like sheep, he didn’t have any argument apart of repeating “border force was following the proper procedure”, nothing but the praise for Nole’s legal team and Mr Nicholas Wood SC by legal experts, does government want new date in the court, we’ll see, bit it doesn’t look really smart to do so, but it’s possible.

January 10th, 2022 at 5:10 pm

The option that government is looking at now is to cancel the visa but on different ground, maybe Sean tipped them off, so, it’s waiting time now.

January 10th, 2022 at 7:09 pm

Go O’opy, go..! ;)

January 11th, 2022 at 4:11 am

I agree with WB, there might be a hard time for Nole now, he might miss AO, other tournaments, but AO government made him very famous, he got also some more supporters in the world, persons who did not have any idea, who he was, until now.
The world is following , what is happening. It would not be a good advertising for the government to cancel his visa again. It is a win-win for Nole at the moment.

January 11th, 2022 at 5:31 am

CF1,

Am not so sure he will lose sponsors as he got also many admirers. The world is not divided in Pro- and Anti Vaxers as they want to make us believe. We have vaccinated and unvaccinated persons, and not all the vaccinated persons are trusting measures of the governments lately, as there are still restrictions in the world, even if you have the vaccine available since end of 2020…why should be a vaccinated (against Covid) person scared to get some disease from an unvaccinated??? I am vaccinated, so I will be fine. Why should I care, that Nole does not take the vaccine?

January 11th, 2022 at 6:07 am

Some colleagues, which have no idea about tennis contacted me last week, when the circus started, because they knew, I am watching tennis matches: “hey, this is the guy which you are mentioning sometimes, correct? F*ck, he’s cool!”

January 11th, 2022 at 6:23 am