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An Evening with Germaine Greer
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Since storming into public consciousness in 1970 with The Female Eunuch, her acerbic attack on sexist culture, Germaine Greer has been kicking up dust of one type or another. She presents a lecture on ‘The Australian Way: The Influence of Australia and Australians on British Politics and Politicians’ in which she traces the influence of the Australian example on British politics, first as the inspiration for Thatcherism and then as the rationale of New Labour. The most recent example is the adoption by the British government of the points system for incoming migrants.

Supported by Overland.

Lecture  |  Current Affairs, Nonfiction, History
Participants
Germaine Greer

When
Thursday, May 21 2009
19:00 - 20:00

Where
City Recital Hall
Angel Place
Sydney
 Venue and Transport Info

Cost
$35/$30

Bookings
8256 2222
9250 1988
 City Recital Hall
 Sydney Theatre Box Office

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GERMAINE GREER (INTERNATIONAL)

GERMAINE GREER was born in Melbourne and in 1969 she was commissioned to write a book on the failure of female emancipation. The result was The Female Eunuch. In 1979 she took up a post as Visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa. With three of her students she produced the influential anthology, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Women’s Verse which led to her setting up her own imprint Stump Cross Books.

She spends four months of every year in Australia where she runs a rainforest rehabilitation project in south-east Queensland. She writes a regular column in The Guardian. The latest of her 20 books is On Rage and Shakespeare’s Wife.