The Vics have responded to Djokovicâs list of demands:
Right response.
As for said demands:
He can piss off if he doesnât like it. Heâs lucky he gets to travel around the world playing sport.
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As someone who doesnât understand tennis, I am proud of my state governmentâs strategy to hold weathy, entitled Europeans hostage.
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I say, if they whine about the so called âstruggleâ, they get sent on the next flight back to whatever side of the planet they came from.
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The standards are totally messed up.
If you live in the LGAs of Blacktown, Canada Bay, Burwood, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Inner West, Liverpool, Paramatta or Strathfield (the combined population of all these would have to be well over a million), you canât enter Victoria.
But if youâre a wealthy tennis player participating in the Australian Open, even from a country where the virus situation is probably a thousand times worse than any of the above mentioned Sydney metropolitan LGAs, then welcome!
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Money talks.
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An âAustralian officialâ.
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CBS News didnât know the exact occupation of Daniel Andrews. It is a rough equivalent of governor of a US state or premier of a Canadian province.
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Thatâs how Iâve seen him introduced in various reports from the US in the past year.
Wonderful thing called research. 60 seconds tops.
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So the strict 14 days quarantine that the Victorian government stated for these affected travellers may not actually be 14 days if they are let out early. Has anyone else been let out early?
From:
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jan/19/coronavirus-australia-live
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Would people in the US really understand what a premier is? Government official is probably the easiest thing for those overseas to identify him as.
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Do we refer to their state governors as âGovernment officialsâ? Just say âVictorian premierâ and be done with it.
Just shows how ignorant the Yanks are.
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Yanks would know what a premier is, but to avoid confusion you could just say âVictorian leaderâ or something like that.
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Itâs 2021. Anyone that didnât know (& wanted to know) what a state premier was could do a quick Internet search from their phone.
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They are⌠But at least the broadcasters know their market. They wouldnât even know what Victoria was and most would probably start thinking of Canada rather than Australia. I remember there being a survey in the US about what the capital of Australia was and I donât think many got it.
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Itâs not really surprising. Whatâs the capital city of Canada or New Zealand? Iâd put my money on at least 50% of Aussies not knowing.
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To be fair I donât even know the capital of Canada, I did know the capital of NZ (Wellington) but only because I have been there.
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