Series[UMA-SRE-20140046] PRINT JOURNALISMAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEPart of Item[2014.0046.00155] The true story of Ethiopian resettlement, The New Worker. 10.i.86IdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004601278Scope and ContentThese records are a portion of a substantial cache of records, some original, some photocopies of original documents, that Germaine Greer filed together in a folder called The True Story of Ethiopian Settlement, The New Worker, 10.1.86 (2014.0046.00155). The title of the file comes from the headline for David Westacott's interview with Germaine Greer, published in 'the weekly paper of the New Communist Party', The New Worker, 10 January 1986. The correspondence, between Gillon Aitken, Donald Trelford and Germaine Greer, concerns Greer's proposal to write about Ethiopia for The Observer, the paper's commissioning of the story, her trip to Ethiopia and the paper's subsequent decision not to run her two 5000-plus word pieces and its payment of a kill fee and associated costs. There is a also photocopied draft of an article, 39 A4 pages, laser printout cut and pasted with GG emendations and a copy of New Worker.The draft copy was published in The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings 1968-1985 (1986) as 'Resettlement, Ethiopia, 1985' unpublished. Subjects: Famines--Ethiopia; The Observer; Relief Rehabilitation Commission; Land settlement; Desie; Addis Ababa; Gambela; Asosa; Kone; Food aid; The Listener; Wages -- Journalists.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0046 Unit 0003MenuBrowse digitised items | Available in the Reading Room
Greer, Germaine, The True Story of Ethiopian settlement [selected records] (1984-1986), [UMA-ITE-2014004601278]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/345876
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