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.
Germaine Greer
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.
