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Germaine Greer.(Disagreeable Portraits)(Biography)

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| July 01, 2005 | Meagher, Roderick | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE LATE AUBERON WAUGH used to say that Australia was a nice place to visit because all its ghastlies had emigrated to London. He gave John Pilger and Germaine Greer as examples of this truth. It is valid as far as it goes, but, unfortunately, it needs two qualifications. The first is that not all of them go; some dig in, and obdurately decline to become expatriates; Eva Cox and Phillip Adams are examples of that. The second is that some of the brutes who go away come back from time to time; Germaine Greer is an example of that.

Every couple of years she comes to Australia and inflicts herself on her compatriots. When she came last year I was fascinated to see her ...

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