Door slammed on non-vaxxers at Australian Open

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has slammed the doorway unopen connected the anticipation of unvaccinated players taking portion successful adjacent year's Australian Open.

The Premier's last connection connected the concern comes connected the aforesaid greeting that Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggested determination could beryllium flexibility connected the inclusion of unvaccinated players.

Speaking connected Nine's Today, Morrison said that "you conscionable person to negociate the nationalist wellness risk."

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. (Getty)

"We speech astir ample numbers of people, evidently determination is simply a smaller fig of existent players," helium said.

"It is bully to person wide and hard and accelerated rules, but determination needs to beryllium a small spot of flexibility truthful we tin unrecorded with the virus."

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However, Andrews responded, saying: "On behalf of each vaccinated Victorian who has done the close happening - my goverment volition not beryllium applying for an exemption for immoderate unvaccinated player.

"What I privation to marque precise wide is that the authorities of Victoria volition not beryllium applying for immoderate exemptions for unvaccinated players."

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Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said his government's presumption was "pretty simple".

"That is, that you tin travel successful if you are treble vaccinated," helium said.

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"If a authorities is seeking an exemption for idiosyncratic to travel successful for a workplace programme oregon a akin lawsuit and they are not vaccinated, they tin travel successful if that authorities seeks it.

"They are subject, however, to 2 weeks of quarantine and that's without fearfulness oregon favour. "It is wholly a substance for the state, oregon the authorities moving with Tennis Australia.

"If determination is simply a nary jab, nary play argumentation successful Victoria, that's a substance for them to resolve.

"You person to bash quarantine if you haven't been vaccinated.

"If the authorities wishes to question the exemption for the players, not lone 1 peculiar player, past that would beryllium created astatine the Commonwealth level connected a large lawsuit basis, but it would necessitate a afloat vaccination."

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Tennis Australia is yet to spell nationalist with its stance connected the matter, but Todd Woodbridge past nighttime said connected 2GB's WWOS Radio that the determination had to prevarication squarely with the authorities and national governments.

"I've recovered fascinating, successful a sense, that radical privation Tennis Australia to springiness an answer. It's not up to Tennis Australia to springiness an answer, it's up to the governments to marque a determination ... that volition lick each the issues," helium said.

Novak Djokovic (Getty)

Several apical players, including satellite fig 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic, are apt to beryllium absent unless the authorities authorities has a abrupt alteration of heart.

Tennis writer Craig Gabriel said that the fig of vaccinated subordinate connected the women's circuit was astir 65 per cent afloat vaccinated, but raised a worrying stat for the men's broadside of the draw, claiming determination was person to 50 per cent of the men treble vaccinated.

"As acold arsenic this contented is concerned, they're a small much autarkic alternatively than pursuing similar sheep," Gabriel said.

"I don't cognize wherefore this is, and wherefore they're truthful sceptical astir it."

Gabriel said that immoderate players, specified arsenic Andy Murray, had been pushing radical to get vaccinated due to the fact that it would payment the full tour.

With respective weeks required betwixt the archetypal and 2nd jab, the deadline is accelerated approaching for players to get vaccinated should they privation to instrumentality portion astatine Melbourne Park, with enactment opening connected January 17.

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