and a level of control over pandemic management. so the victorian government along with tennis australian set up two channels to assess medical exemptions for unvaccinated australian open players and officials who wanted to play in the tournament who are not vaccinated. those two panels approved an exemption for novak djokovic to play in the australian open on the basis that he had sufficient evidence to prove that he had had covid in the last six months and therefore did not need to be vaccinated because he was, to a level, immune. now whetheryou should cropped up was that when he wanted to enter australia at melbourne airport, the federal border force officials applied their own tests as to whether he sufficed the criteria for exemption and that process is separate to the two victorian panels which allowed him to play tennis tournament. those processes and applications and those successful applications did not allow him entry into the country. so when the
more confusing given that a country like england does not have a state government. we, similar to america, we have a federation where there is a national government, the australian commonwealth government who manages the borders and then there are states and some governments like victoria, which also has its own public health rules and public health responsibility. and a level of control over pandemic management. so the victorian government along with tennis australia set up two channels to assess medical exemptions for unvaccinated australian open players and officials who wanted to play in the tournament who are not vaccinated. those two panels approved an exemption for novak djokovic to play in the australian open on the basis that he had sufficient evidence to prove that he had had covid in the last six months and therefore did not need to be vaccinated because he was, to a level, immune. now where the issue cropped up was that when he wanted to enter australia at melbourne airport