Svetlana Kovacevic, the Australian Serbian Chamber of Commerce Public Relations director, is on ABC Information Breakfast to debate Novak Djokovic’s detention in Australia over his visa cancellation.
Kovacevic says the visa approval is a “political sizzling potato” between the federal and Victorian governments and is a nasty look:
It is a unhealthy search for the Australian immigration system and you’d suppose that someplace alongside the best way, correct inquiries would have been made earlier concerning Novak’s suitability to return to Australia and to attempt to keep away from this embarrassing scenario for everybody.
It seems that this debacle is because of an absence of coordination between the federal and Victorian state governments and Tennis Australia concerning the organising of tennis gamers’ visas. It could have been that the left hand wasn’t speaking to the best, or that Tennis Australia, within the center, may not have communicated correctly the necessities for entry. However the level is moot now – that the courts will resolve.
She says the difficulty might escalate tensions between Australia and Serbia, declaring Djokovic’s requests to be moved into totally different accomodation have been denied:
It’s arduous to consider that Novak is handled like a high-risk particular person contemplating that his intention is simply to play in a tennis event after which go away the nation. The punishment that Novak is receiving doesn’t seem proportionate to the circumstances he has discovered himself in.