Tennis player Nick Kyrgios “might not mind” the controversy he attracts but other Australians may, according to former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson.
“The UK media for example is calling him everything under the sun and asking just what sort of standards we set and what sort of standards we accept here,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“They’re saying this bloke’s up there with the original bad boy brat on the tennis court John McEnroe … so he might think of his fellow Australians – there is a place for some degree of selflessness in people’s lives.”
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