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The Australian Open main draw gets underway in Melbourne today, running for the next two weeks.
Today, Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management from the University of Technology Sydney, takes a look back at 2022 - one of the most politically tumultuous years in tennis.
It started with the Novak Djokovic saga in January. Unvaccinated against COVID, he sought a medical exemption to play in the Australian Open on the basis of having recently contracted the virus, which was supposedly granted. But upon his arrival to Melbourne, Djokovic was detained for eight hours, sent to an immigration hotel for four nights, released, and then later deported.
Then, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February caused much division in the tennis world, as it did for many sports. Wimbledon organisers decreed that no Russian or Belarusian players could play at the tournament, enraging many players and fans, who viewed it as athletes being punished for Putin’s war. Other grand slams subsequently let such athletes compete as neutrals.
Fans might be hoping this year brings a pause to the overwhelming political tension that’s characterised the last 12 months in tennis and life.
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Liam Petterson
Deputy Politics Editor
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Daryl Adair, University of Technology Sydney
The COVID pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine combined to make 2022 one of the most controversial years in tennis.
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Kim Felmingham, The University of Melbourne
News of George Pell’s death may generate a roller coaster of complex and variable emotions among abuse survivors.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
Russia appears to have refocused on the land war with the aim of taking more territory.
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Ika Willis, University of Wollongong
A romance writer’s bizarre fake death has gone viral. That her being alive stayed undetected for 2.5 years reminds us that our online and published personas are still separate from real life.
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Bruce Mountain, Victoria University
While this prominent and well funded project has gone into voluntary administration, those enthused about rapid decarbonisation and Australia’s renewable energy export potential need not despair.
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Christopher Rudge, University of Sydney; Cameron Stewart, University of Sydney
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Taha Yasseri, University College Dublin
Small design decisions by big tech companies can play a role in directing our attention.
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Ken Drinkwater, Manchester Metropolitan University; Neil Dagnall, Manchester Metropolitan University
How Prince Harry using a psychic to contact his dead mother, Princess Diana, isn’t that unusual.
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Politics + Society
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Simon Rice, University of Sydney
Criminal trials in these courts often occur behind closed doors presided over by clerics, and there’s often no evidence beyond a confession extracted by means of torture.
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Health + Medicine
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Nicky Morrison, Western Sydney University; Gregory Paine, UNSW Sydney
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Science + Technology
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Prema Arasu, The University of Western Australia; Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University; Thomas Linley, Newcastle University
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Shane Cronin, University of Auckland
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano set new benchmarks for volcanic phenomena and efforts are under way to identify other submarine volcanoes around the world that could pose similar threats.
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Alexandra Whittaker, University of Adelaide; Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México); Daniel Mota-Rojas
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Simon Griffith, Macquarie University; Hugo Loning, Wageningen University
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Lachie Scarsbrook, University of Oxford; Kerry Walton, University of Otago; Nic Rawlence, University of Otago
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Brigitta Olubas, UNSW Sydney
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