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Number one in doubles, she joins us now. humor me for a second. i want to interview as if you're two people, an australian and then a tennis star. your reaction just as an australian. >> well, i mean, that's a big issue here, isn't it? australia really has a tough lockdown particularly here in melbourne. so a lot of victorians are pretty upset that he was allowed in the country. australians haven't been able to go across state borders to visit family members. borders have been shut down well over a year. it has been a difficult time for australians down here. you can understand the agitation a...

15th of december 2021, after first closing it in march 2020, but only to prescribed visa holders and if they met the commonwealth entry requirements. regardless of whether there is anti—vaxxer sentiment and there is anti—vaxxer sentiment and the extent of it, the reality is the australian and state governments are all urging the population to be fully vaccinated and, indeed, the premier in australia has taken extremely strong measures, some would say going way beyond the art of persuasion, demanding that the western show in public come vaccinated before that state reopens its state borders...

Was at the heart of what is, you know, thought to be at the heart of the initial political reaction to this. when novack djokovic first announced via social media he was on his way to melbourne with some sort of exemption. he didn't specify whether or not the vaccines were involved, but there was a great deal of speculation in the lead up to this recent period of time about what would djokovic do? given that although he's made skeptical comments about vaccines in the past he had not prior to these proceedings revealed publicly his vaccine status. so there was all of this speculation. then he s...

While India imposed the strictest lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 infections, the implications of restrictions were also clear as it impacted livelihoods to a major extent.

Going to necessitate more restrictions. we don't have a qr code that you can show when you cross state borders. i suspect the need for that is going to become undeniable and the backlash against it and the conspiracy theory that this is a gateway to taking your bible or guns or whatever it is that people deeply fear. that's going to get worse.