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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Gwyn Topham

End of Australia's Diana moment?

A couple of days after Steve Irwin's death and the subsequent general grief, it seems that parts of Australia are already getting over their Diana moment.

Jack Marx, the Sydney Morning Herald blogger par excellence (noted for his debunking of Russell Crowe) wonders at the fury that met Germaine Greer's view that the animals were getting their own back - especially from the same papers who denounced Irwin as a drongo a couple of years back.

Pretty cynical, he reckons. If not "complete insanity".

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