January 19, 2025 • 5 mins
TV presenter Tony Jones has apologised to Novak Djokovic for mocking Serbian fans at the Australian tennis Open.
Djokovic vowed to boycott interviews from Australian broadcaster Channel Nine until he received a public apology, after Jones called him 'over-rated' and a 'has-been'.
Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says Jones reached out to Djokovic's team after the story attracted worldwide attention.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy New Year, Oli Peterson, Andrew you too. Can I
just say Tony Jones was doing a bit of a
banter and I think Novak Jokovic is just a little
bit too sensitive.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Look, he might be a little bit, but let's think
about the context.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Of when he came out here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
During the Australian Open and he wasn't vaccinated. And look,
Tony Jones is very divisive as well.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It must be said.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He's a veteran sports broadcaster. He's part of the network
which employs me to be blunter Andrew. So when he
went on television the other night on nine News in
Melbourne saying he's overrated, he's has been kicking him out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There was a bit of a social media pylon. But
last night, when you.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Think about it, set a court and he has been
all around the world that Novak will not talk to
Jim Courier because of course Korea is there representing nine
the host broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We got major international relations issues.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So he's Tony Jones this morning explaining why he said
what he said and saying.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Sorry on the Saturday Morning from Tennis Australia via the
Djokovic camp that the Jokovic camp was not happy at
all with those comments. Now as such, I immediately contacted
the Jokovic camp and issued an apology to them. So
this is forty eight hours ago for any disrespect that
Novak felt that I had caused.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So he's saying he tried to say sorry already, but
they didn't want to come to the party. He just
should let's be blunt, he shouldn't have said it. And
he's actually not very funny Tony.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
She just sticked at the sport.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But you know, at the same time, the Aussie crowds,
I mean, he goes a feral. Look what you did.
Look what you did to Daniella Collins. She said, you
know what she did wrong? She beat an Australian and
that was enough. That was enough to be savaged.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But you know what I like, I actually like, and
maybe this is my twisted sense of humor. I like
that Novak's giving it back to us, or giving it
back to Tony Jones, even in all of that context.
So you know, look, probably part of the wider issues
of the organization that I work for right now, Andrew,
and there's been the culture reports last year out of
nine and there's been all sorts of issues with neither.
There's lots of headaches for my parent company unit at
(02:06):
the moment, and it's just another blow probably to the
reputation of the media business at the moment, which as
you and I know, we go through from time to
time for the organizations twisted.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But can I say, I don't think anybody is completing
I think nine and the Aussie Openness is in there going.
This is excellent publicity. True people are going to be
watching to see what Tourney says next and what Novak
says next. It's not bad now serious topic. New South
Wales government they're cracking down on anti Semitism. There's anti
hate laws, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they're going to be bringing these new laws next
month which will effectively make it illegal for hate speech.
It'll make it more difficult of the contentious legislation when
the new legislation is brought about next month in the
state Parliament of New South Wales. So if somebody's preaching
hatred in the community, they say it won't manifest itself
(02:56):
two or three months later in a fire bombing, an
attack or something worse. But doesn't that show there's a
failure of the current laws, like you know, put even
all of these issues to one side. In terms of
people's houses being fire bombed in Sydney or graffiti or
with anti anti Semitic messages, we already had the laws
in place, like if you're going to be a goose,
then you're going to have to be held to account
for being a goose regardless of what you do. You
(03:17):
can't go around graffeeding a place. You can't go around
five buying a place for whatever the motivation is. And
I don't think this cracks down, Andrew on groups that
are trying to gather together for religious purposes to protest
for whatever form of issue that they might want to
be making a song and dance about. This doesn't change
any of that. Just don't be a dhead, basically, Andrew.
(03:37):
That's what it's saying. And if you are, then you
should be facing the full extent of the law. And
I don't know why you need to bring a new legislation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
To stop this.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You already have the power there at your disposal. Just
make sure there are enough police on the beat.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
All right. And I'm talking about too sensitive. I probably
should have done this after Novak Djokovic. Really we've got
the stories around the wrong way. But we've got this
graduate lawyer who's accused as the employer of bullying after
they told him to stop going up late two meetings.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
How's this a lawyer who's working, by the way, for
the government department as well, so he's working for the
public sector. He has taken on his employer to the
Fair Work Commission because let's say it was a nine
o'clock start. He got reprimanded on a few occasions for
turning up after nine o'clock at well after nine o'clock
as well, it might have been ten or eleven because
he had a bit of a sleeping disorder.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He really struggled.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And he also had an issue with the fact that
the meetings were too long Andrews some of them going
for two hours or four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He just couldn't cop it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Doesn't this sound like the current generation of university in
high school graduates.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I might be generalizing here for a moment, who.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just don't understand the definition of a little bit of
hard work and getting your head So poor boy, he's
obviously trotted off to a new organization, and Fair Work
didn't find in favor of Well.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The funny thing is that they have no shame. They
have no fear either. They just they open up their
mouth and they go for it and they stand up
for themselves, which is also an admirable quality, even if
he's a complete dhead to quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, he's starting off thinking that he should be the
manager of the boss, because why not like just walking
to the top job and not have to do the
hard work. So poor fellow, he's got a reality check
and maybe he should have decided to go into another
profession other than being a lawyer, because good luck getting
another gig.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
How old you OLLI thirty seven point nine? How are you, Andrew?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, I'm sixty one and you are far too young
to say, Greg, the problem with the new young generation
is that they don't know how to work because you're
part of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Boy, that's true, But I've been talking about radio for
almost ten years, so you know, maybe I'm an old
and cynical already, Andrew prematurely aging.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I love your work and thank you very much, Alie
Peterson from six p eight.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
Happy New Year, Oli Peterson, Andrew you too. Can I
just say Tony Jones was doing a bit of a
banter and I think Novak Jokovic is just a little
bit too sensitive.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Look, he might be a little bit, but let's think
about the context.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Of when he came out here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
During the Australian Open and he wasn't vaccinated. And look,
Tony Jones is very divisive as well.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It must be said.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He's a veteran sports broadcaster. He's part of the network
which employs me to be blunter Andrew. So when he
went on television the other night on nine News in
Melbourne saying he's overrated, he's has been kicking him out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There was a bit of a social media pylon. But
last night, when you.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Think about it, set a court and he has been
all around the world that Novak will not talk to
Jim Courier because of course Korea is there representing nine
the host broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We got major international relations issues.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So he's Tony Jones this morning explaining why he said
what he said and saying.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Sorry on the Saturday Morning from Tennis Australia via the
Djokovic camp that the Jokovic camp was not happy at
all with those comments. Now as such, I immediately contacted
the Jokovic camp and issued an apology to them. So
this is forty eight hours ago for any disrespect that
Novak felt that I had caused.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So he's saying he tried to say sorry already, but
they didn't want to come to the party. He just
should let's be blunt, he shouldn't have said it. And
he's actually not very funny Tony.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
She just sticked at the sport.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But you know, at the same time, the Aussie crowds,
I mean, he goes a feral. Look what you did.
Look what you did to Daniella Collins. She said, you
know what she did wrong? She beat an Australian and
that was enough. That was enough to be savaged.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
But you know what I like, I actually like, and
maybe this is my twisted sense of humor. I like
that Novak's giving it back to us, or giving it
back to Tony Jones, even in all of that context.
So you know, look, probably part of the wider issues
of the organization that I work for right now, Andrew,
and there's been the culture reports last year out of
nine and there's been all sorts of issues with neither.
There's lots of headaches for my parent company unit at
(02:06):
the moment, and it's just another blow probably to the
reputation of the media business at the moment, which as
you and I know, we go through from time to
time for the organizations twisted.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But can I say, I don't think anybody is completing
I think nine and the Aussie Openness is in there going.
This is excellent publicity. True people are going to be
watching to see what Tourney says next and what Novak
says next. It's not bad now serious topic. New South
Wales government they're cracking down on anti Semitism. There's anti
hate laws, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they're going to be bringing these new laws next
month which will effectively make it illegal for hate speech.
It'll make it more difficult of the contentious legislation when
the new legislation is brought about next month in the
state Parliament of New South Wales. So if somebody's preaching
hatred in the community, they say it won't manifest itself
(02:56):
two or three months later in a fire bombing, an
attack or something worse. But doesn't that show there's a
failure of the current laws, like you know, put even
all of these issues to one side. In terms of
people's houses being fire bombed in Sydney or graffiti or
with anti anti Semitic messages, we already had the laws
in place, like if you're going to be a goose,
then you're going to have to be held to account
for being a goose regardless of what you do. You
(03:17):
can't go around graffeeding a place. You can't go around
five buying a place for whatever the motivation is. And
I don't think this cracks down, Andrew on groups that
are trying to gather together for religious purposes to protest
for whatever form of issue that they might want to
be making a song and dance about. This doesn't change
any of that. Just don't be a dhead, basically, Andrew.
(03:37):
That's what it's saying. And if you are, then you
should be facing the full extent of the law. And
I don't know why you need to bring a new legislation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
To stop this.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You already have the power there at your disposal. Just
make sure there are enough police on the beat.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
All right. And I'm talking about too sensitive. I probably
should have done this after Novak Djokovic. Really we've got
the stories around the wrong way. But we've got this
graduate lawyer who's accused as the employer of bullying after
they told him to stop going up late two meetings.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
How's this a lawyer who's working, by the way, for
the government department as well, so he's working for the
public sector. He has taken on his employer to the
Fair Work Commission because let's say it was a nine
o'clock start. He got reprimanded on a few occasions for
turning up after nine o'clock at well after nine o'clock
as well, it might have been ten or eleven because
he had a bit of a sleeping disorder.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He really struggled.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And he also had an issue with the fact that
the meetings were too long Andrews some of them going
for two hours or four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He just couldn't cop it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Doesn't this sound like the current generation of university in
high school graduates.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I might be generalizing here for a moment, who.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just don't understand the definition of a little bit of
hard work and getting your head So poor boy, he's
obviously trotted off to a new organization, and Fair Work
didn't find in favor of Well.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The funny thing is that they have no shame. They
have no fear either. They just they open up their
mouth and they go for it and they stand up
for themselves, which is also an admirable quality, even if
he's a complete dhead to quickly.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, he's starting off thinking that he should be the
manager of the boss, because why not like just walking
to the top job and not have to do the
hard work. So poor fellow, he's got a reality check
and maybe he should have decided to go into another
profession other than being a lawyer, because good luck getting
another gig.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
How old you OLLI thirty seven point nine? How are you, Andrew?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, I'm sixty one and you are far too young
to say, Greg, the problem with the new young generation
is that they don't know how to work because you're
part of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Boy, that's true, But I've been talking about radio for
almost ten years, so you know, maybe I'm an old
and cynical already, Andrew prematurely aging.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I love your work and thank you very much, Alie
Peterson from six p eight.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
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