Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is a renowned writer, academic and journalist. Her books include The Female EunuchThe Obstacle RaceThe ChangeThe Whole WomanThe Beautiful Boy, White Beech and Quarterly Essay 11: Whitefella Jump Up – The Shortest Way to Nationhood. Widely regarded as one of the most significant voices of feminism in the twentieth century, she currently divides her time between England and her rainforest property on the Queensland–NSW border.

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Quarterly Essay 11: Whitefella Jump Up
The shortest way to nationhood

In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia.