There was little surprise when Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison waded into the furore ignited by the vaccine exemption granted to tennis star Novak Djokovic to play in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.
After all, Morrison’s government was being battered by a surge in Omicron cases, a shambolic testing system and empty supermarket shelves just months ahead of an election.
When Djokovic, the unvaccinated world number one men’s tennis player, announced that he was flying into Melbourne to defend his Australian Open title, Morrison, whose Liberal party is trailing Labor in the polls, went on the offensive.
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