16 h 15 m, 7 jan 2022 ano - DAILY MAIL Barnaby Joyce claims Novak Djokovic's visa drama is comparable to THAT Johnny Depp dog-smuggling saga

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Barnaby Joyce claims Novak Djokovic's visa drama is comparable to THAT Johnny Depp dog-smuggling saga if the tennis star is not telling the truth - and says the world No.1 should NOT get special treatment

By MIRIAH DAVIS

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has claimed Novak Djokovic's visa debacle is comparable to Johnny Depp's dog smuggling saga if the tennis star has not been truthful to border officials.

The tennis pro arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday, where he was told he could not get in due to issues with his visa and evidence supporting his vaccine exemption.

He now remains under police guard at the city's Park Hotel alongside refugees while he awaits a court challenge to overrule the verdict on Monday.

Mr Joyce had little sympathy for Djokovic's situation.

'If he hasn’t filled out the forms appropriately, then he’s taking the sovereign capacity of another nation for a joke,' he told the BBC.

'If it has been determined that what he said is not the facts, then he's right up there with Johnny Depp.'

'He's got to understand you've been graced by God with a certain talent but that certain talent does not rise above the sovereign rights of other nations.

'If you wander off into our country and don’t tell us the truth, we’re going to kick your a**e out of here as well.'

In April 2015, Johnny and his now ex-wife Amber Heard flew their Yorkshire Terriers Pistol and Boo into Australia, where the actor was filming Pirates of the Caribbean.

The transportation of their dogs violated Australia's biosecurity laws as the couple failed to declare and quarantine the two pets.

As the situation erupted, Joyce infamously threatened to euthanise the dogs.

Speaking to Channel Seven’s Sunrise on Friday morning, Joyce said celebrities were not above Australia's laws.

'When you sit back and look at it from a distance you just think, sometimes I get a sense of people who make a lot of money believing they've evolved somehow above the laws of the land whether you like them or not,' he said.

'We saw this with Mr Depp and I'm not saying Mr Djokovic is Mr Depp.'

'The correspondence was black-and-white clear given to Tennis Australia, so they should have conveyed that on to Mr Djokovic, and then he still made a decision he was going to jump on a plane and arrive here.

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