The Mayor of Australia’s iconic Blue Mountains has announced that he will ban the Australian Vaccination risks Network (AVN) from using public land “to disseminate dangerous misinformation about vaccinations.” “I believe any request by anti-vaccination groups to hold events in the Blue Mountains should be refused,” Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill said in a statement…

Novak Djokovic is facing an estimated legal cost of up to $360,000 for his visa cancellation saga in Australia, but the final figure has yet to be announced, a Senate estimates hearing revealed on Monday night. The Department of Home Affairs was ordered to pay the legal costs for the first Federal Court matter after…

The Federal Court of Australia has revealed its reasons for dismissing Novak Djokovic’s legal challenge to his visa cancellation, which ended a week-long saga where the male world number one fought to stay on Australian shores to compete for his 21st Grand Slam. In a unanimous decision by the full bench, Chief Justice James Allsop,…

Australian MP George Christensen has hit out at the Labor Party after its deputy opposition leader called for him to be punished for his views on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations. “Labor are now calling for my removal from parliament for daring to challenge the pandemic orthodoxy,” Christensen wrote on Facebook on Thursday. “Think about it: they…

SYDNEY, Australia—The participation of Novak Djokovic, men’s tennis World No. 1, in the Australian Open could be decided Sunday afternoon, a panel of three federal judges have said as they adjourned to decide whether to reinstate Djokovic’s Australian visa after almost five hours of hearing arguments. Chief Justice James Allsop said that the court hoped to deliver…

SYDNEY, Australia—The participation of Novak Djokovic, men’s tennis World No. 1, in the Australian Open could be decided Sunday afternoon, a panel of three federal judges have said as they adjourned to decide whether to reinstate Djokovic’s Australian visa after almost five hours of hearing arguments. Chief Justice James Allsop said that the court hoped to deliver…

The Australian government has said that while Novak Djokovic poses a “negligible” risk of spreading COVID-19, his mere presence could stoke “anti-vaccination sentiment,” court documents reveal. Djokovic’s lawyers, meanwhile, have argued that the case against the tennis star was “illogical” and that Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s reasoning was affected by the jurisdictional error identified last…

The Queensland government’s health department is working to encourage the about 7,000 staff who missed the state mandated Oct. 1 deadline to get their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. A Queensland Health spokesperson told The Courier Mail that they are working through about 1,900 applications for exemptions from Queensland Health and Hospital Services staff…

Commentary Society loves a scapegoat. It’s comforting to be part of a majority that can point at a minority to blame for their ills. The scapegoats that we are ostracizing today are the non-vaccinated. As an exhausted population deals with the fourth wave of COVID-19, they want to see a way out. They want to…

Commentary Society loves a scapegoat. It’s comforting to be part of a majority that can point at a minority to blame for their ills. The scapegoats that we are ostracizing today are those who are choosing not to get vaccinated. As an exhausted population deals with the fourth wave of COVID-19, they want to see…