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Novak’s Ace

The tennis champ is chipping away at the mad mandates

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

With less than a fortnight until the start of Australia’s Grand Slam tennis tournament, Victoria’s health henchmen caved in and granted a medical exemption to Novak Djokovic. Presumably, Premier Dan Andrews realised that excluding the world’s number one tennis champ from the Australian Open made it look, er, closed.

Yet the exemption has provoked outrage, particularly in Victoria among the premier’s fans.

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