Grace Tame

Grace Tame (born 28 December 1994) is an Australian activist. She is best known as the recipient of the 2021 Australian of the Year award, which she received as an "advocate for survivors of sexual assault". Growing up in Hobart, Tasmania, Tame attended St Michael's Collegiate School, where she was a victim of repeated child sexual abuse by one of her teachers in 2010. Tame relocated to California in 2013, and returned to Australia in 2020. Beginning in 2018, Tame co-founded the #LetHerSpeak campaign, in response to a Tasmanian gag law that prevented her from publicly identifying as a sexual assault survivor. Supported by the broader MeToo movement, the campaign succeeded in: securing Tame special leave from the Supreme Court of Tasmania, letting her share her experience with the media in 2019; and reforming Tasmanian law in 2020, to allow adult survivors of sexual assault to self-identify in the media. For her activism, Tame was named the 2021 Australian of the Year, becoming the first Tasmanian to win the award. Tame has since continued her advocacy for sexual abuse survivors and journalistic ethics, including support of Brittany Higgins, and criticism of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Since 2025, Tame has also attracted media attention for her criticism of Israel. In February 2026, when Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting, Tame addressed a protest and led a chant that included the phrase "globalise the intifada". Later that month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used the word "difficult" to describe Tame, provoking a backlash.