Beyond the Sky Limits

• Ian Neil and Nicholas Saady, The Đoković shambles highlights what refugees have long known — Australia’s ‘God powers’ are dangerously broad, The Guardian, January 21, 2022

The sorry saga of Đoković’s visa is a vivid demonstration — if more be needed — that we have allowed too much discretionary, and essentially unreviewable, power to be concentrated in the hands of one person. [Read more].

As the President of Liberty Victoria, Julia Kretzenbacher, observed in the wake of Đoković’s expulsion: “One danger of largely unfettered discretions, or ‘God powers’, is that decision making just becomes political and populist... eroding the integrity of the executive and the rule of law”. Photo: Tess Derry/PA.