- Novak Djokovic is no stranger to high-stakes dramas in the early hours of Australian mornings.
- In cancelling his visa in those early hours of January 6, the government, likely without realising, set in motion a series of events that would engulf its agenda at a time when the nation was battling a coronavirus outbreak sending the health system into crisis.
- Yet if it had let him in it would have been accused of having one rule for most people and another for the rich and powerful.
Djokovic visa handling turns COVID villain at odds with Australia’s border rules into a political victim
