...and more regarding the old hasbeen in the UK:
From news on yahoo.com.au
""Stupid" Greer should back off: Beattie
Expatriate Australian academic Germain Greer should "back off" and keep her "stupid" comments on Steve Irwin to herself, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says.
Ms Greer told the Nine Network that the crocodile hunter, who died on Monday when a stingray barb pierced his chest while he was snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, had embarrassed millions of Australians with his cruelty towards animals.
The comments came as she defended a column she wrote for The Guardian newspaper in Britain in which she said the animal world had taken revenge on "self-deluded animal tormentor Steve Irwin".
Mr Beattie told the Nine Network it was unbelievable Ms Greer had so publicly put her own ego first while the family of Mr Irwin struggled to cope with their loss.
"Germain Greer is just wrong and I just can't imagine anyone being more insensitive and, frankly, stupid," he said.
"This argument is just extreme radical rubbish from Germaine Greer and it couldn't come at a more insensitive time.
"Any suggestion that he (Mr Irwin) mistreated animals is just rubbish ... he educated a generation.""
Regardless of his fame, he was a husband and a dad, and for some one to come out with comments like these at this time is truely unbelieveable. She is just rubbish...
I talked to someone in Brisbane the other day and he summed it up quite well:
"Mate, we all liked to take the piss out of the Crocodile Hunter, but when you get right down to it, he was bloody good bloke..."
The praise dosn't come much higher than that in Oz...