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Penelope Debelle

Grace Tame wows Adelaide Writers Week with a memoir of abuse, courage … and Scott Morrison

Grace Tame speaks at Adelaide Writers' Week in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden. Photo: Roy Vandervegt

The day young Grace Tame confronted her abuser in his office at school was the day she lost all fear of what people thought of her, a fearlessness that reaches all the way to her interaction with the Prime Minister.

Upsetting applecarts and frowning at Scott Morrison are not a bother for the fierce-minded sexual-abuse campaigner and former Australian of the Year, whose personal experience of grooming and abuse has given her agency and a voice at a time when people are ready to listen.

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