If you are angry at a tennis player instead of being angry at your tyrannical government, you are a clown.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD EXPLAIN, NOT DJOKOVIC
Novak Djokovic did not issue his exemption, “experts” did.
Novak Djokovic did not issue his visa, “experts” did.
Who has the explaining to do?
It doesn’t appear the answer to that question is Djokovic.

Nick Cater Spiked Online 3rd January 2022
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Australia is currently ranked 104th in the world for coronavirus deaths – a victory of sorts in the eyes of the laptop class which now runs much of our lives. Yet the cost of this achievement is incalculably high and the damage to civil society may never be fully repaired. The ever-changing list of petty edicts has tugged at the threads of the social fabric in countless ways, and Australia is a less companionable country as a result.
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Before Covid-19, it would have been the height of bad manners to speak rudely to a member of the cabin crew on a Qantas flight. Today, ‘hostile abuse’ is so common that Australian airlines, backed by Australian Federal Police, are running a campaign warning that on-board ill-temper can earn you 10 years in jail and a six-figure bill for the cost of diverting an aircraft. The rise in rudeness is attributed solely to the rules on mandatory masking, a rule imposed by a federal-government agency with little regard for cabin staff, whose job changed overnight from being dispensers of chicken or beef to the face-covering police.
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This vignette illustrates how the lurch to authoritarianism since the arrival of Covid-19 is eroding the spirit of mutual respect that once made Australia such an even-tempered place. DH Lawrence’s description of the easy-going people he encountered on a visit to Sydney a century ago, a place where ‘everything was very easy, and there was no fuss’, resonated with the Australia I lived in three years ago, but it feels unrecognisable today. Australia is a far more illiberal, mistrustful, censorious, suspicious and divided country in 2022 than it was at the beginning of the pandemic.
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