one tennis player must spend the weekend detained by australia s border force. cancellation means mandatory detention. reporter: this man is a former senior official in australia s immigration department. he says politically the australian government had no choice but to try again. but it s a high-stakes move because there is the possibility that if they push through with this, they lose, and that means more humiliation. yes. they will be very aware that legally they could lose this case, and that would be truly embarrassing. it would be a really bad look. i mean the real implication is how badly australia looks in the eyes of the world if it loses a second court case. reporter: one immigration lawyer says the minister s powers are wide and not easily changed. they would have to articulate very strong grounds that the minister made a jurisdictional error, and under australian
this kind of attention. so it turned into what i believe has been a political firestorm between the federal government and the state government and tennis australia which oversees the tournament. the they work closely with the victorian government. when the prime minister saw he had the citizenry of australia on his side i believe that s when he took action and they held novack djokovic at the border, and he s now stuck in it s a hotel but it s more like a detention center. yeah, and i think another layer djokovic claims he tested positive on december 16th. that s after the december 10th deadline. he appeared at a public event honoring him in his home country i think the next day. what i m trying to figure outright now is what s his status right now and from a public health perspective how should he be viewing this moment? well, his status, phil, i would say a precarious at best.
the boxes. you ve got to get the green tick box to get into australia through your visa application. let s start with djokovic. novack djokovic made a decision, it s his right to make a decision not to be vaccinated. when you do that you re going to run into these types of difficulties, and i predict this will continue throughout the rest of this year as it relates to his tennis career and trying to break the records he currently holds. and then you say tennis australia who runs the tournament sort of acts as a go between between the players and the government, i believe they ve overstepped their bounds. they re known as a player friendly tournament over the years. they ve done a great job doing that. i believe they took that a little too far. then you can say how come the state government of victoria and the federal government weren t working more closely? if as the federal government says you can t get into the country unvaccinated even with a positive test and not have to
reporter: the leader of the oath keepers, stewart rhodes, made an initial appearance in court today in texas as one of the first people charged with seditious conspiracy related to the u.s. capitol attack. even the government says they re accusing him of an organizational role. they admit that they did not commit any violence. they did not hurt any police officers. they did not damage any property. they re charging them as being conspirators, the organizers or aiders and abettors, that sort of thing. reporter: but a detailed indictment lays out a sprawling, methodical plot. starting in the days after the election when rhodes allegedly told his supporters, we aren t getting through this without a civil war. prosecutors allege rhodes and his ten co-defendants traveled from across the country to d.c. with stockpiled weapons, ammunition, and other tactical equipment. video from january 6th captures
a mess. and of course that s to be expected almost in the covid times. nobody really knew what the roadmap was in order to handle the rise in covid infections, to try and keep it out of our borders, our borders were shut down. effectively australia was closed for two years, and this was supposed to be the coming out parade. unfortunately the omicron variant is now ripping through australia in every state and territory. but what we ve seen in the past two years is real agitation between the federal government and the state government of victoria. they don t agree with each other ideologically, politically, and that has given rise to a lot of angst along the way. and we saw that in the first visa cancellation where it was decided that up until that point, what australia had been enforcing were the domain of the states.