[WMarshal]

"Australia needs him more than he needs Australia. When you refuse to let the world’s #1 tennis player compete in your tournament then by definition your tournament isn’t a championship tournament. He certainly doesn’t need the money and the Australian Open will lose it’s prestige after this political stunt. He flew down there with the understanding that his pre-arranged visa would be honored. The Australians did not act in good faith so screw ‘em."

It needed to be said again. naturalman1975, Australia has gone off the rails and its governments think it is their full time job to punish and harass its citizens. This is not going to end well no matter how much you bleat otherwise. It's going to get ugly.

[naturalman1975]

It also needs to be said that you simply and obviously do not understand the complexities of how Australia is governed.

Saying Australia has gone off the rails is blaming Australia as a monolithic entity for things that have occurred because of actions of state governments in only very limited areas. There’s no real reason why people outside Australia should understand Australia’s constitutional relations, but the fact they don’t is leading to a lot of really, really poor understandings here.