{"id":243309,"date":"2022-01-17T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243309"},"modified":"2022-01-17T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:55:42","slug":"tennis-star-djokovic-kicked-out-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=243309","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star Djokovic kicked out of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Weary of some of the harshest COVID-19 border restrictions in the world, many Australians wanted tennis star Novak Djokovic kicked out of their country for traveling to a tennis tournament without being vaccinated. But the backdrop to the government\u2019s tough line on the defending Australian Open champion _ and Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u2019s description of the expulsion as a \u201cdecision to keep our borders strong\u201d _ dates to nearly a decade ago. It also shines a light on Australia\u2019s complicated, and strongly criticized, immigration and border policies. Now, with the next election due by May, Djokovic has become the new focus of the government\u2019s claim to a tough stance on border protection. Opposition leaders argue that the tennis star has exposed government failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Weary of some of the harshest COVID-19 border restrictions in the world, many Australians wanted tennis star Novak Djokovic kicked out of their country for traveling to a tennis tournament without being vaccinated. But the backdrop to the government\u2019s tough line on the defending Australian Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":202769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243310,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243309\/revisions\/243310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}