Just quietly, it’s the Australian half Open – The Age

The black and blue uniforms of the many and obvious security staff added to the forbidding aspect; it made it look as if this was their court.
Electronic line calling completed the military effect. Instead of the usual register of linespeoples voices, it was the same call in the same voice each time. It could have been made by Gamestop. And it brooked no argument, which was also strange.
But the weirdest effect was the silence. This court has known pregnant silence and stunned silence and respectful…

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