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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda Britney Higgins and Grace

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Speaker 1: Tame yesterday speaking at the National Press Club. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you saw it. You may have seen snippets

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Speaker 1: of it on the news. It was groundbreaking to see

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Speaker 1: these two young women speaking in such a manner. I

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Speaker 1: had the hairs on my arms stood up. We don't

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Speaker 1: often see people, let alone young women speaking out so bravely,

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Speaker 1: not caring if they're insulting the Prime Minister, just speaking

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Speaker 1: their truth in such a powerful way. It was absolutely

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Speaker 1: game changing. I think Britney Higgins, as we know, was

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Speaker 1: raped in Parliament House. As she said, she thought it

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Speaker 1: was the safest place in Australia.

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Speaker 2: There were police.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven patrolling every avenue of that place,

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Speaker 1: and yet this happened to her. She has she didn't

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Speaker 1: plan to speak out and make this a mission for

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Speaker 1: her life, but she's felt compelled to do so because

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Speaker 1: of the slow way that her case was handled and

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Speaker 1: that change is happening inside Parliament House itself. It's so

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Speaker 1: frustrating for people in her position and she doesn't want

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Speaker 1: anyone else to be in that situation again. Scott Morrison,

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Speaker 1: as we know spoke out just a few days ago

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Speaker 1: apologizing for this, and she says she doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: apologize apologies, she wants action of.

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Speaker 3: His language last year was shocking and at times admittedly

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Speaker 3: a bit offensive. But his words wouldn't matter if his

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Speaker 3: actions had measured up then or since. What bothered me

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Speaker 3: most about the whole imagine if it were our daughter's spiel.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't that he necessarily needed his wife's advice to help

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Speaker 3: contextualize my rape in a way that mattered to him personally.

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Speaker 3: All he could do and that's how he realized it

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Speaker 3: was a bad thing. I didn't want his sympathy as

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Speaker 3: a father. I wanted him to use his power as

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Speaker 3: Prime minister.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's what a politicians supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: And we've had the Jenkins Review, there's been a revi

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Speaker 1: This is a review on how Parliament, Parliament and Parliament

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Speaker 1: House and can change and the implementing change. This is

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Speaker 1: what all this is about, is implementing the change. It's

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Speaker 1: all very well to say no one wants a violence

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Speaker 1: against women and children and sexual violence against children, but

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Speaker 1: nothing's changed, and that's what these women are finding so frustrating.

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Speaker 1: This is a giant call to arms. Grace Tame just

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Speaker 1: power to her. She just does not hold back, and

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Speaker 1: she revealed a very interesting phone call she'd had a

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Speaker 1: few months ago.

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Speaker 4: I received a threatening phone call from a senior member

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Speaker 4: of a government funded organization asking for my word that

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say anything damning about the Prime Minister on

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Speaker 4: the evening of the next Australian of the Year awards.

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Speaker 4: You're an influential person. He'll have a fear, they said,

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Speaker 4: A fear. What kind of fear? I asked myself. A

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Speaker 4: fear for our nations most vulnerable, A fear for the

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Speaker 4: future of our planet. And then I heard the words,

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Speaker 4: you know, with an election coming soon, and it crystallized

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Speaker 4: a fear, A fear for himself and no one else.

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Speaker 1: It's been revealed the newspapers revealed that it was someone

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Speaker 1: from the au Straight End of the Year Committee. They

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Speaker 1: have denied this. Scott Morrison himself has said I'm appalled

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Speaker 1: by that. I'd like to find who said that, and

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Speaker 1: Grace has said, you're missing the point. It's not not

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Speaker 1: about chastising that person. It's the bigger conversation here.

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Speaker 2: Sexual abuse is awkward. People don't want to talk about.

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Speaker 1: It, and that it was very uncomfortable to watch this. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I was championing in my televisions, but it's not easy

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Speaker 1: to listen to them speak.

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Speaker 2: But it's something you brought up a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: ago on the show about not playing nice anymore.

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Speaker 1: Girls are not playing nice.

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Speaker 2: Tame if you read about her, she was groomed by

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Speaker 2: an older man, a fifty eight year old man.

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Speaker 1: She was fifteen years old. She came from a broken family.

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Speaker 1: She was groomed and sexually abused by a teacher. And

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Speaker 1: one of the big things she wants to change is

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Speaker 1: the language we use when we talk about this. She

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Speaker 1: wasn't in a relationship with the teacher she was raped.

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Speaker 1: She was a teacher. She was a kid, and she's

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Speaker 1: still having to fight that language today.

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Speaker 4: I've lost count of how many times I've had to

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Speaker 4: say this now. But the man who abused me was

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Speaker 4: at my high school from nineteen ninety two until I

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Speaker 4: reported him in twenty eleven. His first successful target was

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Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety three, and the school knew this before

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Speaker 4: or I was born. I've spoken with three others he

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Speaker 4: took advantage of before my time, and countless other women

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Speaker 4: and men who bore witness to his predatory behavior during

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Speaker 4: his eighteen year tenure.

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Speaker 1: Wow, and the first of those happened before she was born.

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Speaker 1: And she's still accused now, she said, she still gets

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Speaker 1: trolled by people saying she led him on. And even

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Speaker 1: the court case itself said that she was in a

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Speaker 1: relationship with him, or that that he coerced her. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't say he raped her. It was sexual abuse. This

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Speaker 1: is the time for change, and that's what these women

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Speaker 1: are saying is for ten years, we've had this dialogue.

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Speaker 1: Enough with the dialogue, time for legislation to kick in

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Speaker 1: and make tangible change. And Grace just ended her speech

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Speaker 1: on such a powerful note.

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Speaker 4: An advocate is only as powerful as their supporters. You

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Speaker 4: see me here, standing tall, if a little bit broken,

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Speaker 4: standing on the shoulders of giants, side by side with Brittany,

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Speaker 4: side by side, with all of you together making change,

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Speaker 4: making history, but above all else, making noise.

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 1: I get emotional hearing it.

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 1: I really feel that that's that's the spark of change.

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Speaker 1: We cannot go backwards from here, surely.

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Speaker 4: Jones and Amanda's