A strong woman.
The 26-year-old who helped lead the fight to overturn a law preventing sexual assault survivors from speaking out has been named the Australian of the Year for 2021.
At 15, Grace Tame was groomed and raped by her 58-year-old teacher at a private girls' school in Hobart.
Her abuser was jailed for his crimes, but Ms Tame was not able to speak about her experience publicly under Tasmania's sexual assault victim gag laws, despite the perpetrator and media being free to do so.
She became the hidden face and catalyst of the #LetHerSpeak campaign, a victim who could not be shown or named in the media.
Along with some of her campaign partners, Ms Tame applied to the Supreme Court for the right to publicly self-identify as a rape survivor and won, before going on to advocate for others.
Sexual assault survivor and advocate Grace Tame named 2021 Australian of the Year (msn.com)
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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