Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has issued a warning to Kanye West: Be vaccinated, or you can’t tour here.
Morrison’s mandate comes following a report that West has sought to stage a concert at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium in March, prior to his headlining gigs at Coachella the next month.
Following Australia’s deportation of Novak Djokovic after the unvaccinated tennis star’s visa application was denied prior to the Australia Open, Morrison issued a statement in response to whether he would allow West — whose own vaccination status is in question — to perform a concert in the country.
“The rules are you have to be fully vaccinated, they’re the rules,”Morrison spoke. “They apply to everybody as people have seen. It doesn’t matter who you are, they’re the rules. Follow the rules [and] you can come, if you don’t follow the rules you can’t.”
Martin Foley, Victorian Health Minister, added. “I don’t, frankly, know Mr. West’s vaccination status… apparently Mr. West claims to be vaccinated,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
West claimed in a July 2020 interview that any Covid-19 vaccine was suspect. “the mark of the beast.” “So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious,” West Submitted ForbesAt the time. “They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven.”
West, however, admitted that he had lied during the Drink Champs interview in November 2021. “I only got one of the shots, so I’m half-ccinated.” West didn’t specify which shot he received — the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine — or whether he ultimately received a second shot if required.
West has yet not announced a tour to support Of course! DondaHis upcoming projects Donda 2, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday that West’s team approached the Australian Football League with a request to relocate a game set for Marvel Stadium on March 21; that request was denied, with West’s gig at the venue now penciled in for March 12. According to the report, West must be back in America by April 3 to attend the Grammys in Las Vegas. DondaIt is nominated for Album of the Year, among other nominations.