What is wrong with you?
She was going to attend this event with her dad. She instead went and presented the award in his place. What an honor for her!
Should she just stay in her house moping about her misfortune? I'm sure Steve Irwin, as full of life as he was, would not want his family to seclude themselves from what was and still is their very public life.
It's good for the living to keep on living, even in the face of personal loss.
Many people make judgements about what 'others' should do, based on what they would do.
Many would hide from the press, hide from their commitments, hide from the world, dressed up in depression for years and years.
Many would consider their loss of someone like Steve as the loss of all their energy and will, and that they had none of their own without him.
They would end up being lost in the playbooks of the world's memory and lose all the financial backing for the animal preserves Steve worked so hard to gain.
They would lose everything Steve built so they could dissolve themselves in their pity for their own selfishness.
Bindi and her mother are like Steve in that they intend to CARRY ON with his tradition, with his energy, with his strength, and in his name.
So, to answer your question "What is wrong with you?", the answer is that they are AFRAID. They think others should be AFRAID.
These others, their names will never be in history books, or honored on the gates of any animal preserves, or remembered in any school books.
These people want everyone else to be as unknown, afraid, and weak, as they are.
AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. Bindi has a future she will pioneer with her mother's strength, her father's, and God's. No one is 'parading' this child around and I don't think there are any strong enough to get in this child's way, either.
Especially those who sit on the sidelines but think they know the best 'path' Bindi should take.