When Australian immigration officials rejected tennis star Novak Djokovic's medical exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination requirement and canceled his Australian visa, they set off a storm of ramifications — bureaucratic, political and legal.
The world's top male tennis player spent four days in a dowdy Melbourne immigration detention hotel among asylum seekers and undocumented migrants before Federal Circuit Court Judge Anthony Kelly upheld his appeal and ordered him released and his visa reinstated.
Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke now must make the politically charged decision of whether to use his authority to overturn the judge's ruling.
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