Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. World tennis number one Novak Djokovic reacted with dignity and composure after being deported from Australia because he had not been vaccinated against Covid-19. He issued a brief statement expressing his disappointment: “I respect the court’s ruling
Possibly much to the disappointment of PM Scott Morrison, the unedifying Novak Djokovic saga is over. The Full Court of the Federal Court has rejected Djokovic’s appeal against a second visa cancellation and he has voluntarily left Australia for Spain. Why would Morrison be disappointed? Because he was clearly
Keith Parry Bournemouth University Dr. Keith D. Parry is Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Sport & Events Management at Bournemouth University (UK) and an Adjunct Fellow at Western Sydney University (Australia). He is an award-winning writer and educator. Tennis star Novak Djokovic is out of the
Maria O’Sullivan Monash University Maria is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University. Her teaching and research interests are public law, refugee law and human rights law. Many sports stars are, rightly or
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The ridiculous, unedifying Novak Djokovic saga continues to embarrass Australia. Not since Lindy Chamberlain, perhaps, or Cardinal Pell, has the media had such a field day whipping up a firestorm of hate. Not since Egon Kisch in 1934 has a government made such a ludicrous ass out of itself in
Dear Editor The Australian government’s high-handed treatment of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic because of his refusal to have the Covid vaccination not only highlights the weakness of the case for the jab but also suggests that Djokovic’s state of health is not the real reason for
Transgenderism has to be the biggest own goal in the history of feminism. Not that feminism isn’t littered with own goals: for all the gains that women undeniably made in the first, and to a lesser extent the second, waves of the movement, there is plenty of evidence that
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
As I’ve written many times, Australia is bedeviled by two Scott Morrisons. There’s Scott Morrison the international statesman who has won recognition around the world for his principled stance against China. Then there’s Scotty from Marketing, a gutless dog on domestic politics, continually waved back and forth
January 9th, 2022. The New Year in the UK continues to amaze, with the difficulties of devolution presenting again. Chester FC, a non-league football side have been threatened with prosecution for breaking the Welsh Government’s Covid legislation. The problem is that the Welsh/English border runs through the
As I recently wrote, the frenzied witch-hunting of Novak Djokovic is yet another excrescence of the sort of media-fuelled ugliness that periodically breaks out in Australia. Still, the mainstream media at least have the poor excuse of being driven by a desperation to generate clicks online and stave
Joe McIntyre University of South Australia Dr McIntyre is legal theorist specialising in judicial studies and public law. After initially practicing law in South Australia, he moved to the UK to study at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis examined the nature of the judicial role, and how that
The embarrassing spectacle of the Novak Djokovic show trial drags on. All that has been aired in the trial so far merely confirms what seemed obvious enough from the start: the whole chaotic farce is almost certainly a political concoction. If nothing else, it exposes beyond doubt the Kafka-esque
Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. I wanted to take a moment to recognize Novak Djokovic and his heroic defiance of the COVID regime, lending his enormous platform and status to the millions of people around the world who have been denied their unalienable rights
