GERMAINE Greer, the sniping harridan whose credibility in this country ran out years ago, has done it again.
As the world mourns the loss of Steve Irwin, the lovable larrikin who made a greater contribution to conservation than any other Australian, Greer saw a chance to kick him in the guts.
"The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin,'' she howled in her UK paper column the day after Irwin's death.
Greer's conclusion about the manner of Irwin's death was as vicious as it was stupid. With her usual disregard for the facts, she dreamed up a scenario in which Irwin leapt on to the huge stingray and screamed: "Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse.''
This idiot savant then decided to give sneering readers of The Guardian a lecture on the lethal nature of stingrays, based on her experience at Melbourne's Brighton Baths as a schoolgirl in the late 1940s.
"As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas,'' she wrote.
Talk about scientific. Germaine, Steve Irwin specialised in getting up close to dangerous animals. The point of his work was to show the world these creatures in their own habitat.
This week his luck ran out - trust Greer to be the first to tread his memory into the dirt.
Irwin's wife Terri and two children Bindi and Bob have enough to deal with at this difficult time.
But Greer, who has only ever lived for herself, wouldn't understand that.
Poisonous preacher ... Germaine Greer is as tired as she is tasteless
We have come to expect this ludicrous logic from a woman who has done nothing for Australia, the country which raised her but which she has embarrassed on the world stage for the best part of 40 years.
Since fleeing this country in the 1960s in pursuit of something less suburban, Greer has not made a single constructive statement about anyone or anything in Australia.
"I was 12 years old when I decided that I had to get out of Australia if my life was to begin. I had been bored ever since I could remember,'' she wrote in 2004.
"If your ambition is to live on Ramsay St, where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.''
Greer's greatest contribution to the world was her attempt - through The Female Eunuch - to make a whole generation of women feel ashamed for getting married and having children.
Thankfully, most women learned to ignore the shrill bore and made up their own minds about whether to have a family, career, neither or both.
Steve Irwin devoted his life to promoting his country. He didn't need a Cambridge degree to show millions how to interact with the natural environment.
I suspect what irks Greer is Irwin was an Aussie who conquered the world but never forgot where he came from.
Australians loved him. Who will mourn Germaine Greer when she keels over and dies in her mud-brick cottage in West Buggeryshire?