'Share your truth, it is your power': Grace Tame’s address to the National Press Club

The 2021 Australian of the year and sexual assault survivor says ‘we are on the precipice of a revolution’

In April of 2010, I was battling severe anorexia. Truth be told, I still am. This illness had nearly taken my life the year prior and seen me hospitalised twice, bedridden and tube-fed. Bone thin and covered in fine down hairs from malnourishment, I was picked on for the way that I looked.

I just stopped living with my father for the first time since I was born. And my mother was eight months pregnant at 45. I was a 15-year-old student at a private girls’ school in Hobart.

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