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Grace Tame

Since being announced Australian of the Year in January 2021, Grace has become a household name as a brave and passionate advocate for systemic change to prevent child sexual abuse.

She was the first female in Tasmania to be granted the right to speak under her own name about her personal experience of sexual abuse as a child. Grace appeared as part of the #LetHerSpeak campaign (run by sexual assault campaigner and Walkley award winning journalist Nina Funnell). Funnell’s campaign - run in partnership with News Corp, Marque Lawyers and End Rape On Campus Australia, advocated for legislative change to grant all survivors the right to publicly self-identify without having to go through the financial and emotional cost of a Supreme Court application. The campaign partners performed Grace’s legal work for her, and she was the lead case study in the campaign.

Since then, Grace has used her voice to raise awareness of the impacts of grooming and the other various injustices faced by child sex abuse survivors.

Our Goals are to:

  1. Develop education strategies to raise public awareness of sexual abuse in institutional settings;

  2. Lobby to improve responses to sexual abuse occurring within institutions;

  3. Facilitate improvement of workplace policies and procedures relating to sexual abuse in the workplace;

  4. Collaborate with government in relation to effective laws and policies aimed at preventing sexual abuse;

  5. Collaborate with government and law enforcement officials on how to better support victims of sexual abuse;

  6. Collaborate with support services to develop and improve counselling and support of survivors of sexual abuse; and

  7. Campaign for legislative reform to standardise the legislative definitions pertaining to sexual abuse across all Australian jurisdictions.