Grace Tame on pursuing activism, managing being Australian of the Year and wresting back control of the narrative
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Grace Tame admits that \\u201csometimes I can be too rigid in my opinions\\u201d but she makes no apology for her obstinacy in advocating for survivors of child sexual abuse, pointing to a law change in the Australian Capital Territory as her first victory.
\\n\\u201cIt has translated into a reality of dissolving and redirecting the shame \\u2026 we\\u2019ve seen a law change in the ACT,\\u201d she says. \\u201cJust to change that word, to remove that word \\u2018relationship\\u2019 from the crime of persistent child sexual abuse, that\\u2019s a huge thing.\\u201d
Tame joins\\xa0Jacqueline Maley,\\xa0columnist\\xa0with\\xa0The Sydney Morning Herald\\xa0and\\xa0The Age, in this episode to discuss the importance of advocating for sexual abuse survivors, what it was like to live in the Australian of the Year glare, and what drove her to pen her upcoming memoir,\\xa0The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner.
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