Grace Tame admits that “sometimes I can be too rigid in my opinions” 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.

“It has translated into a reality of dissolving and redirecting the shame … we’ve seen a law change in the ACT,” she says. “Just to change that word, to remove that word ‘relationship’ from the crime of persistent child sexual abuse, that’s a huge thing.”

Tame joins Jacqueline Maley, columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The 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, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner.