GREER WATCH

Photo from The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia was perhaps 'not ready' for Germaine Greer. Her feminist outcries and controversial commentary made her a recoginised, and generally disliked, figure in the Australian public sphere. But it has been a year since I moved from Melbourne to London, and I am finding that the U.K has yet to demonise "the Greer factor", as we have done at home.

I watched one of those popular comedy news quizzes the other day, Have I got news for you, and to my shock, there was Greer...sitting up there with well-respected comedians and bantering with them like a house on fire.

And hence, I am Greer Watching for a series of posts on my blog. I want to follow her, document some of the absurd things she says (and has said), but also discover the real Greer...does she have a point, or is she simply a bitter cow?

Let's begin.