Coronavirus Australia: Djokovic saga a sideshow next to dismal public health policy failures

“I just read that Australians are calling that idiot Novax Djocovid,” read the WhatsApp message from my friend. Yes, indeed they were. Watching the international news coverage of the Djokovic drama in my former hometown has been a salient lesson on how news narratives are constructed and how sport, border control and the pandemic get spun in Australian politics.I can report that for many people in Melbourne the issue was a sideshow to the daily reality of a dismal public health policy failure…

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