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Why Famous Feminist, Germaine Greer, Hasn’t Spent More Time in Australia

An extended clip from the ground-breaking series, The Thread, exploring what connects different Aussie icons who broke away from the pack. Full episode on Prof. Germaine Greer here: https://goo.gl/YtkkZR Like watching? *Like this video above and comment below* Support us by subscribing: https://goo.gl/uQDYfu Follow Hugh Minson on Twitter:   / minceontoast   Like Hugh Minson on Facebook: https://goo.gl/VHkyGi Follow Jack Morphet on Twitter:   / jackmorphet   ======================================================== ►Transcript Jack: Why haven't you plied your trade more in Australia? Germaine: Ah, that's an interesting question. For lots of reasons, one is your publishing industry which I'm afraid is in absolute disarray and I don't know why that is, you've got great writers who can't afford to write, because they get paid $10,000 for a book and that won't pay a month's mortgage, I mean it's madness. The price of everything goes up and the price of writers' work goes down. And no-one seems to understand how to publish on a worldwide scale or anything like that, it has to be picked up by someone else. I mean a writer like Shane Maloney who has to teach creative writing at the misnamed literary festivals, which are some of the most lugubrious occasions you could ever be involved in, ghastly, all of it ghastly and all of it wrong. So there's the publishing industry. The amount of money in the publishing industry. There's Australian newspapers which are a vast headache, we grow the best journalists in the world and we produce the worst newspapers and it's another conundrum. How do we do that? Some of the most important people working in the world are Australian journalists and they don't work here and you have to work out what that's about, what's gone wrong there. There's also right now, there's the charity regime here. In England, I easily set up my rainforest charity, very generous arrangement with the government where every penny we raise, they will match by gift aid and you get tax relief as well. The same things apply in Australia but they're much harder to get at and it's on a much smaller scale. And partly it's an accident of history. I went to Cambridge, was supposed to do an undergraduate degree, ended up doing a Ph.D. Got a job at Warwick, began to work in British television, had relationships, friendships... But still, it's true to say, is it time to go back to Australia and my heart contracts, I think no I can't do that, I can't. I can't live in suburbia and Australia is, we have in CBDs, but we live in suburbia and the taste of life is suburbia and I remember when I was a kid and I'd stand in the back garden surrounded by fences and I'd think there must be life somewhere, somewhere something is happening, I want to be there. Hugh: But not in your backyard? Germaine: No, just a grapefruit falling off the tree. ======================================================== ►About Prof. Germaine Greer Professor Germaine Greer is one of the twentieth century’s most influential feminists. The controversial writer and academic overturned a lot of the world’s thinking on feminism when, in 1970, she published her international best-seller, The Female Eunuch. Since then, she’s published other books; co-presented TV series; written for newspapers; and lectured at Cambridge University. She’s continually challenged the status quo through her flamboyant writing and intellectually-charged media appearances. Few Australians have polarised and provoked public opinion as much. ======================================================== ►About The Thread Two mates sit down with 10 iconic Australians to figure out how they broke away from the pack. Hugh and Jack seek out leaders of wide-ranging fields: adventure, sport, business, philanthropy, medicine, law and literature to uncover the common thread that binds them. The interview subjects are household names famed for remarkable and well-told stories, but rarely have they been asked how they did it, how they define success and whether anyone can do what they've done. Armed with meticulous research and uncomfortably simple questions, we elicit intriguing, inspiring and often unexpected insights from an eclectic bunch of trailblazers. ======================================================== Check out all 10 full episodes here: https://goo.gl/uQDYfu