Australian tennis players have become jerks

[Wynter]

The ATP site has it wrong Because another player this week who was born in the 1990s also won his 2nd career title. Dominic Thiem. Great stuff for future generation!

Mainad said he was the third to win 3+

Thiem doesn't make it

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Mainad said he was the third to win 3+

Thiem doesn't make it

Oops my mistake! Sorry Mainad

 

[Mainad]

The ATP site has it wrong Because another player this week who was born in the 1990s also won his 2nd career title. Dominic Thiem. Great stuff for future generation!

Thiem has only won his 2nd title. Tomic, Raonic and Dimitrov are the only ones born in the 90s to win 3 or more. That was what it pointed out.

That said, Thiem is indeed one of only 4 players born in the 90s to win multiple ATP titles. Kudos to him for that.

 

[tipsa...don'tlikehim!]

The King of Bogota, deal with it.

 

[jon70]

Hewitt had a racist moment, but that doesn't make him a racist; just like a smart person doing one stupid thing doesn't make them stupid. I would have advised him to own up, apologise, move on. Denial wasn't a good look.

As for the state of Aussie tennis, I'm loving it because there's a lot that's coming to the surface. Whether anything positive comes of it is the question...

 

[Bartelby]

All hail the Bogan of Bogota!

 

[Murrayjuannow]

Not more of a d1khead than the current Australian government:

http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politic...-decades-ago-20150721-gigbmu?skin=smart-phone

Bronwyn Bishop's expensive love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago

July 21, 2015 - 10:06AM




By JAMES MASSOLA

Bronwyn Bishop's love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago when she was a junior minister in the Howard government, with the now Speaker amassing a near $140,000 bill over four years.

The $139,196.01 outlay is close to seven times the amount spent by two other then-junior ministers — Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey — on charter flights in the same January 1998 to December 2001 period.

Illustration: Alan Moir.

Mrs Bishop was junior defence minister in 1998 and spent $20,961.18 in that period. After the October election that year, she served as minister for aged care and spent $118,234.83 before being sent to the backbench in November 2001 after the election.

In contrast Mr Abbott, who served as parliamentary secretary for employment through 1998 and was then promoted to be employment minister from late 1998 to November 2001, spent $24,420.14 in the same four year period on charter flights.

And Mr Hockey, who entered the ministry as financial services minister in October 1998 and served in the role until November 2001, spent $20,202.80 on charter flights.

The figures are based on publicly available documents and do not cover the first 18 months of spending by the trio, in the first term of the Howard government, because the details of individual flights by ministers were not reported at this time.

Fairfax Media does not suggest that Mrs Bishop's use of these ministerial charter flights was outside the rules that govern the use of entitlements, or that the flights involved travel to a Liberal Party fundraiser, as the notorious $5227 helicopter charter flight from Melbourne to Geelong revealed last week did.

But the spending demonstrates Mrs Bishop's penchant for charter flights — the cost of domestic commercial flights or special purpose flights operated by the RAAF has not been included — and will place further pressure on the embattled Speaker.

The Prime Minister rebuked his Speaker on Monday, describing her as "on probation" and said he was "unhappy" about the ongoing scandal, for which Mrs Bishop had "copped a justifiable hiding".

"I can really understand why people are unhappy about this," Mr Abbott said. "Frankly, I'm unhappy about it as well."

"She has been a strong Speaker ... she has been a strong servant of our country, she has been a good servant of the Coalition and so she does have my confidence, but like everyone who has done something like this, inevitably, for a period of time, they are on probation."

His comments came amid mounting unhappiness with Mrs Bishop within Liberal ranks over the matter which, as Mr Hockey has pointed out, has sucked the oxygen out of the government's economic message.

Bronwyn Bishop was rebuked by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday. Photo: Dallas Kilponen



Social Services Minister Scott Morrison suggested he would have apologised if involved in an expenses scandal like Mrs Bishop's.

"When I had an error in one of my own arrangements ... and it came to my attention, I fixed it and I made that sort of a statement," Mr Morrison said on 2GB radio.

Mrs Bishop is under intense pressure over the $5227 helicopter charter flight to a Liberal Party fundraiser, her refusal to apologise for that extravagance, and an $88,000 two-week trip to Europe.

The Finance Department is now examining her helicopter flight from Melbourne to a golf course near Geelong, and two flights to the NSW towns of Nowra and Young.

And Mrs Bishop is facing further difficulty when Parliament resumes on August 10, with Labor strategists planning an immediate no-confidence motion in a move designed to blast the Speaker out of the chair.

"That [a no-confidence motion] is one of the tools available. It will be impossible for the government to advance any other issues until they resolve this one," one senior MP said.

"Once they know what procedures we are set upon, they can prevent it, so we haven't settled on tactics yet."

A no-confidence motion in the Speaker is expected to fail because of the government's big majority, but it will maintain pressure on Mrs Bishop and ensure that her use of entitlements remains the subject of public debate.

Late on Monday, manager of opposition business Tony Burke wrote to Mr Abbott asking him to spell out what the impact of Mrs Bishop's probation would be on the parliament.

Mr Burke asked how long her probation would run for and whether it would impact on the Finance department's investigation.

"Given there is no Parliamentary precedent that I am aware of for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to be placed on probation, I ask that you provide further information to clarify how being on probation will impact on the Speaker's authority over Parliament House and the House," he wrote.

He also asked what it would mean for her role when Parliament resumed, whether it changed her entitlement reporting responsibilities and whether it affected her salary.

Asked about her spending while a minister in the Howard government, a spokesman for Mrs Bishop said "the Speaker as a minister used all entitlements inside the rules. That figure [of $140,000] is exceptionally less than Mr Tony Burke, who spent between 2008 and 2013 more than $316,000".

The spokesman confirmed payment had been sent to the Finance Department for the helicopter charter but said that now that Finance was reviewing the two other flights to Nowra and Young, "it is not appropriate for the Speaker or our office to provide further commentary whilst this process is under way".

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten pressed Mr Abbott to "show courage and leadership" and order Mrs Bishop to quit.

"When Tony Abbott was opposition leader he was all about talking about standards of performance and accountability. Now he's the Prime Minister he seems to be missing in action," he said

On Monday the Seven Network raised questions over Mr Shorten charging taxpayers more than $1200 for flights and Commonwealth car hire to attend a party fundraising event in Sydney during the ALP leadership contest in October 2013.

A spokesman for the Opposition Leader said Mr Shorten, who was industrial relations spokesman at the time, travelled to Sydney to speak at the Maritime Union of Australia's National Council, and remained for the fundraiser.

Good Bye Bronwyn! All corrupt Aussies must go!
http://gu.com/p/4b75q

 

[Bartelby]

Bishop was a disaster as a speaker and the complete embodiment of the elite sense of entitled living at the taxpayers' expense.

 

[Bartelby]

‘Why do so many people take an instant dislike to Senator Bishop?’ to which the answer was, ‘It saves time,’ ” the then foreign minister, Gareth Evans, quipped during a debate in 1992.

 

[HardcourtHeaven]

3 set against Berdych at Miami 2015 was also impressive, after failed on MPs of 2set TB, he just stood on the base line, and put the ball back in play only if didn't have to move a single step

that was a goodie

 

[Alien]

Hewitt was always bad. His in your face C'mons on other players UFEs were as bad as they get.

 

[Pagoo]

Has Tennis Australia come up with a statement yet? I'm sure if it was Tomic they would be having a field day.

 

[14OuncesStrung]

Someone must kidnap John Tomic. Someone please save Tennis in Australia. And Mr Bernard while we're at it.
Won't somebody do something? Send the guy to Easter Island or something...

 

[Ciaron]

Apparently Pat Cash turned out to be a real knob end .... He may have been one all his life altho I thought he was ok when he took Wimbledon and did that ridiculous climb up the pavilion.

 

[wsk429]

Hewitt had a racist moment, but that doesn't make him a racist; just like a smart person doing one stupid thing doesn't make them stupid. I would have advised him to own up, apologise, move on. Denial wasn't a good look.

As for the state of Aussie tennis, I'm loving it because there's a lot that's coming to the surface. Whether anything positive comes of it is the question...

Racist comments come from racist people which comes from racist up bringing.