“Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.” Germaine Greer

Professor Germaine Greer is back in Australia and is as fired up as ever.

In previous years, Greer, who comes to Australia for four months a year, has railed against many elements of society.

On this trip to Sunrise, she is happy to declare she stands by her criticisms of Steve Irwin and Princess Diana.

	Greer the footballer
	According to Sandra Lee from the Sunday Telegraph, “She's a relic from the past basking in the euphoria of adulation from her devoted followers, like some old footballer reliving his glory days over a few beers at the pub.”

She loves Gen Y kids ‘thinking for themselves’ and Greer says, unexpectedly, that Australia is slightly more advanced than Britain when it comes to women’s issues.

Women’s issues are Greer’s bedrock concern.

Feminist first

Greer is the firebrand author of the significant feminist book, The Female Eunuch, released 1970.

The book has sold over one million copies and never been out of print. But despite this success, Greer has made a career of irritation, articulating her anger in what can be entertaining vitriol across newspapers, radio, TV and books. And if you think she won’t complain about the media, you can read that here.

Her writing tends, as she herself would say, to “uncoil with ferocious energy.”

For example; of her time in the UK Big Brother house, she said, “This is a racist country; to the vast majority of couch potatoes out there, [inmate] Shilpa is a "Paki bird".

Still writing

Living in Queensland when she is here, Greer says feminism is as relevant today as ever, because she says women never got the things they fought for.

Her concerns for Australia, however, are never very far from the surface.

Greer says Australia’s progressive stance on things like assisted reproductive techniques have created a lot of confusion and anger.

Her latest book is ‘Shakespeare’s Wife’, the story of Ann Hathaway who married William Shakespeare when she was pregnant with his child aged 26 and when he was just 18.

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