Dokic dad in journalist strip row
Damir Dokic, the controversial father of tennis star Jelena, was today accused of asking an Australian television journalist to strip if she wanted an inter-view with him at his Melbourne hotel.
Damir has tried to dismiss the incident as a joke. However, it has fuelled local animosity against the man seen as the driving force behind Jelena's decision to quit Australia to live in America and represent Yugoslavia - the country of her birth.
Damir allegedly told journalist Clare Brady that he was making love while talking to her on the phone and "was invited to his room only if she came along so she could watch," according to a report from her television company.
Damir has stirred up more controversy by criticising Australia in a radio interview.
He told a Perth radio station: "This is the second time Jelena is a refugee (he brought the family to Australia to escape war in Serbia) and the Australian people are big racists and fascists. This is a discriminatory country and not long ago you could go and hunt Aboriginal people here."
Damir then pointed out that the first people sent to colonise the country were convicts and said: "Who are the first people in Australia? From bitch and crime people you cannot make a nation."
He is refusing to consider paying back the $1 million that Tennis Australia claim they have spent backing his daughter and instead, wants $5m for all the "bad stories written about Jelena and me".
