embarrassment for australia. shaimaa khalil, bbc news. alexander downer, is former australian foreign minister to the liberal party, the same party as the current australian government. he was high commissioner to the uk until 2018, and he spoke to my colleague jane hill about djokovic's situation. well, it is a bit of a mess because the federal government in the form of the health minister wrote to tennis australia on the 29th of november to say that the fact that somebody who is unvaccinated has covid does not give them an exemption from quarantining for two weeks when they arrive in australia. so tennis australia knew this from the end of november but still he has