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Alex Hawke

does not speak Greek, like many third-generation Australians whose grandparents fled Greece during WWII.

But he knows the stories of when his maternal grandfather fought against the Nazis in Chortiatis, his family's village, in the mountains of Thessaloniki.

Hawke is the grandson of the survivor of a massacre.

German troops burned 300 houses in Chortiatis and executed 146 Greek soldiers and civilians.

Many of them were children.

It was September 1944.

There were many Greeks who came by boat to the Pacific country fleeing the war and dragging traumas that their descendants do not forget.

Hawke, it doesn't.

The grandson of immigrants, of Greek refugees from WWII, is now Australia's Minister of Immigration.

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Despite his family history, with two grandparents forced to flee his country's war, Hawke has done nothing to change the harsh immigration policy towards refugees and asylum seekers, who since 2013 have been transferred to offshore camps in small islands in the Pacific, or locked up for years in detention centers.

Section 133 of the Migration Law

Hawke was promoted to immigration minister following a shakeup of the Australian government in October last year. The local press has always considered him the

. Now, his name has left the Australian borders and appears in newspapers around the world because he is the key person in the first soap opera of 2022:

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On Monday, when the judge reversed the border authorities' decision to cancel the tennis player's visa, the figure of Hawke appeared on the scene. As Minister of Immigration, you can turn to section 133 of the Migration Law which gives you exceptional power to cancel Djokovic's visa again. It can do so if it considers that the Serbian "

, safety or good order of the Australian community".

If he decides to execute power,

, face a ban from entering Australia for the next three years and his lawyers could appeal the decision and the process could drag on for months.

If he doesn't, Djokovic will stay in Melbourne and compete at the Australian Open to win his 21st Grand Slam.

Djokovic rests during training on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Hawke spoke out on the case through a spokesman, who said the minister was still

Analysts see Hawke as the last resort of the judicially defeated Australian government to fix the disaster. And that there is no exception for a person, whoever they are, who has landed in the country without being vaccinated, skipping the border requirement that all Australians have to comply with, no matter how much medical exemption they may have, to stay longer in Australia.

All the focuses are now on the minister who has the ATP's 'number one' in suspense. A politician who enlisted in the military as a teenager. He served for six years. He even reached the rank of lieutenant, until in 2000 he laid down his arms to get into politics, pulling for the now ruling Liberal Party.

In his early political career, which he combined with jobs such as manager in a supermarket, he managed to lead the youth of the party in New South Wales.

He became a deputy in 2007 and has not stopped rising ever since.

After serving as deputy defense minister, Prime Minister Morrison appointed him immigration minister last year, after noting his

in evacuating Australian citizens from Kabul when the Taliban seized the Afghan capital.

Support for traditional marriage

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on emergency flights in a very dangerous, violent and chaotic situation," said Hawke, whose career has also been shrouded in many shadows and stale comments on diversity and inclusion issues. sexual.

Starting with his stance against same-sex marriage.

"For a long time I have had a conservative view on these issues, in support of traditional marriage. The family unit is the foundation of society," he said in 2017 after voting against legalizing the union between homosexuals.

A year later, he was one of the staunch defenders of new rules that tried to

, claiming that "people of faith" were under attack in Australia. Hawke said it was reasonable for parents to want an education free of "Marxists" in the religious schools where they took their children.

The minister has also received much criticism from the opposition for his comments regarding the inclusion of immigrants in Australian society.

In a television interview, he suggested that immigrants should "assimilate and integrate" in response to a question about changes to the Australian citizenship test.

He also made a controversial comment in Parliament to the country's first Muslim Labor MP,

, accusing her of thinking that her diversity is "better than other people's diversity."

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