knowingly covid positive back in december. djokovic also acknowledges errors on his immigration forms. documents. he says his agent simply checked the wrong boxes indicated he had not traveled two weeks prior to his arrival in australia, even though he s famous and was seen in spain and serbia in that time frame. joining us now is kevin blackestone. you have, you ve been writing about this yourself. you ve been following this, take me inside sort of the nuances that i ve missed here in the djokovic saga? i m sure there s more because it seems like there s something happening every five minutes. as you pointed out right now, he s waiting as everyone in australia and the tennis community as to see what the
were found to have at best made a mistake or at worst outright lied on their immigration forms. a judge sided with djokovic earlier this week on the procedural basis that he
was acting, quote, on health and good order grounds on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so. now, djokovic is unvaccinated and therefore, not eligible under australian federal government rules to enter the country as a nonresident. the tennis star has been led to believe by tournament organizers that he would have an exemption because he told them that he had contracted covid and recovered from it in december but he also admitted a mistake on his immigration forms. saying he hasn t travels anywhere 14 days prior to his arrival in australia when, in fact, he h he said his asian agents filled in the form and it s a simple mistake. his critics counted the providing false information to immigration officers would have anyone who wasn t a multimillionaire celebrity kicked out of the country immediately. now, that court hearing we were just looking at, bret, is due to get underway any minute. there is likely to be another
he sort of hangs out with this sort of group like wellness influencer and he s proposed that people like him can eat certain foods that might be toxic or drink certain poisonous fluids, and that by virtue of their awesome body s detoxify them. so, i m not sure he s the world s foremost public health expert. i do know that he s apparently lied on his on some of these immigration forms, and i know that he s espoused some anti-vaxx views in the past. i honestly don t know enough about the situation to know whether that merits him being blocked from australia or from the open. i was going to say, i know people who when they re going through immigration in countries, in western countries, they are so afraid of misspelling their own name, that that violation alone would get them deported, get kicked out. this guy falsified immigration
been the purveyor of some rather odd theories in the past. he sort of hangs out with this sort of group like wellness influencer and he s proposed that people like him can eat certain foods that might be toxic or drink certain poisonous fluids, and that by virtue of their awesome body s detoxify them. so, i m not sure he s the world s foremost public health expert. i do know that he s apparently lied on his on some of these immigration forms, and i know that he s espoused some anti-vaxx views in the past. i honestly don t know enough about the situation to know whether that merits him being blocked from australia or from the open. i was going to say, i know people who when they re going through immigration in countries, in western countries, they are so afraid of