Novak Djokovic judge reveals full reason for deportation after releasing official court documents

Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia as a result of immigration minister Alex Hawke believing the unvaccinated star may be a risk to the community, official court documents show.

The world No.1 was deported from the country on the eve of the Australian Open getting under way after the Federal Court upheld Hawke’s decision to deny the Serb a visa.

Chief Justice James Allsop published the court’s judgement online on Thursday with papers showing it ‘was plainly open to the Minister to infer that Mr Djokovic had chosen not to be vaccinated because he was opposed to vaccination or did not wish to be vaccinated.’

The judgement said: ‘There was no issue but that Mr Djokovic was not, by January 2022, vaccinated.

‘It was plainly open to the Minister to infer that Mr Djokovic had for over a year chosen not to be vaccinated since vaccines became available.

‘That he had a reason not to have a vaccination at the time of the decision in January 2022, apparently having contracted COVID-19 on or about 16 December 2021, did not say anything as to the position for the many months from the availability of vaccines to December 2021.

‘It was plainly open to the Minister to infer that Mr Djokovic had chosen not to be vaccinated because he was opposed to vaccination or did not wish to be vaccinated.’

The court also ruled that the Australian population could be influenced by Djokovic remaining in the country with the potential that his presence ‘might foster anti-vaccination sentiment.’

‘An iconic world tennis star may influence people of all ages, young or old, but perhaps especially the young and the impressionable, to emulate him,’ the court ruled.

‘This is not fanciful; it does not need evidence. It is the recognition of human behaviour from a