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Leading article Australia

Don’t turn tennis into Tampa

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity immigration farce as shambolic as the saga involving Novak Djokovic. Cocker’s offence was the taking of drugs, Djokovic’s was to refuse them. Both succeeded in making an Australian prime minister look foolish in the eyes of the world, not to mention in the eyes of voters.

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