Leaders in this country are actively cultivating a climate in which women are bullied into disappearing — even further — from our culture’s public spaces. A new wave of feminism is needed, says Sophie Cunningham.
Germaine Greer
Guy Rundle: Rundle bites: Gillard breaking the mould … Fee crisis for Lib-Dems …
Julia Gillard may have looked a little ridiculous with her Edna Everage act in Brussels, but she has one fan in the UK: Baroness Shirley Williams.
Hinch hits back at Greer’s Roxon death claims
A bitter stoush has erupted over the 1973 death of rock journalism legend Lillian Roxon, after Germaine Greer implied veteran broadcaster Derryn Hinch had contributed to her premature demise.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: In conversation with Germaine, who incidentally, may sue Morry.
Our hero Guy Rundle attends the London Australian Film Festival, where he learns that Germaine Greer is considering suing Morry Schwartz, John Hillcoat would love to make a romcom with Nick Cave, and Londoners serve sausage rolls with Vegemite. Hilarity ensues.
Wankley Awards: Mrs Nowra answers her husband’s critics
Louis Nowra’s wife Mandy Sayer answers her husband’s critics in today’s Australian, in an item running under the awful headline: “Louis, Louis, oh baby, you gotta go.”
Louis Nowra’s wife: Yep, my husband is a misogynist jerk
In a bizarre piece, Mandy Sayer — wife of Louis Nowra, author of the controversial Germaine Greer piece in The Monthly — fights the criticism of her husband in the media. Yes, he’s a woman-hating jerk who does all the cooking, cleaning and shopping at home. Ahem.
Razer: The Monthly‘s Louis Nowra needs a good vajazzling
Forget what Louis Nowra and The Monthly say, writes Helen Razor: Germaine Greer is a bright and occasionally charming old ratbag who should be revered.
Greer: I didn’t liberate women
It’s been 40 years since Germaine Greer wrote her pivotal feminist text The Female Eunuch. But while the West has since undergone a “feminist revolution”, she’s not taking any of the credit.
50 years of TIME in Australia (and a few less-important islands, too)
TIME magazine is celebrating 50 years of publication in Australia (well, the “South Pacific”, but it pretty much ignores everyone else), including a tribute to its pick of most influential Aussies of the last five decades: Robert Menzies, Germaine Greer, Victor Chang, Eddie Mabo, and Tim Flannery.
The C Word: it insults, offends and should be said more often
There are few taboo words left in the English language, but the C word remains one of them. Why are vaginas nicknames so offensive and when will women get round to reclaiming them?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Australians overseas behaving badly
Crikey readers on Aussie travellers, Germainem Greer, the Age Pension and more.
Guy Rundle: Greer bores the tits off the Sydney Writers’ Festival
The real Germaine Greer, the versatile commentator, is not the Germaine Greer of today’s audience’s beloved memory, the louche outrageous, liberatory author of the Female Eunuch, sudden and startling global figurehead.
Germaine Greer tackles Margaret Thatcher
To mark the 30th anniversary of Thatcher’s election Germaine Greer embarks on a signature personality assassination.
Rage, identity, class and the Aboriginal laboratory
Greer says it’s not the grief that kills you. You can live with grief and people do — it’s the RAGE that slowly does you in. It was like she lit a match and stuck it under “Sorry Day’” writes Wednesday Kennedy.
The Crikey Ethicist: Flirting with Germaine and Janet
I know it sound perverse, but I want Germaine and Janet to seduce me, writes John Armstrong
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … the Losers … News & CA … the Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Is Germaine Greer getting ready to sue?
Is the shrew about to sue? asks an arts insider. Germaine Greer is currently the subject of a West End play, except she’s not.
Did you hear the on about Robert Mugabe?
He walks in to a bar…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 28 August, 2007
20 questions. Really? Is that all there is to being an Australian? Surely providing 20 questions as a test of one’s worthiness for Australian citizenship simply invites others. Questions that is. We thought we’d suggest a few alternatives.
