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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Grace Tame is back in the news again.

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Speaker 1: Well, there was a photo that has been used to

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Speaker 1: discredit her, that has been published in the newspapers this week.

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Speaker 1: You say, Brennan at the photo she put her on

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Speaker 1: her own instace. It's a photo of her, she's holding

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Speaker 1: a giant bomb on a couch and it was taken

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Speaker 1: when she was much younger. But in twenty fourteen she

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Speaker 1: posted on her on her Insta and then took it down.

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Speaker 2: No one knew who Grace Chan was.

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Speaker 1: No, and then when she became a person of more

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Speaker 1: prominence as the Australian of the Year, she removed fair enough

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Speaker 1: she then this has been put I don't know who

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Speaker 1: made the decision, but a number of media outlets have

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Speaker 1: used this photo. It was published again last week, used

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Speaker 1: to discredit and to shame her. Really, this is to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, as we were talking about with Claire Stevens earlier,

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Speaker 1: we don't like it when young women don't behave as

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Speaker 1: we'd like them too. She's getting up at he let's show.

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Speaker 2: This happened to Joan of ARC did it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Pretty much?

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Speaker 1: She got up at it and they burned her at

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Speaker 1: the stage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was back in the day. We don't

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Speaker 2: like and the same with Adam Goods. We don't like

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Speaker 2: people speaking out, and particularly we're doing.

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Speaker 1: It, but particularly women. We don't like.

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Speaker 2: Its white guy. You can say whatever you want, you

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Speaker 2: can get a job at talk back radio, yes, But

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Speaker 2: really people like Grace Tame. And it's so easy to

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Speaker 2: sit there and say, oh, come on, but when you

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Speaker 2: look at the facts, if you read about what happened

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Speaker 2: with Grace Tame when she was young, you go, okay,

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Speaker 2: fair enough.

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Speaker 1: But women have been agitating for a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: things for years and years and years. If you look

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Speaker 1: back through the history of all the women who've started

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Speaker 1: the women's movement who have fought, and not all of

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Speaker 1: them have done it aggressively, but some really have and

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Speaker 1: that has swung the pendulum. That's what you need for

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Speaker 1: people to take notice. And Grace is just living her truth.

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Speaker 1: And she wrote an open letter over the weekend that

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Speaker 1: I'd like to read some of it to you because

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Speaker 1: it was so incredible, so articulate as to why that

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Speaker 1: was a terrible thing to do to publish that photo.

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Speaker 1: She said to every media outlet who sought to discredit

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Speaker 1: me by publishing that photo, although my humor and strength

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Speaker 1: remain intact. I'd be lying if I said it didn't

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Speaker 1: let me down, not just as an individual, but more

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Speaker 1: so an advocate of the survivor community. At every point

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Speaker 1: on the national stage, I might add, I've been completely transparent,

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Speaker 1: but all the demons I've battled in the aftermath of

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Speaker 1: child sexual abuse, drug addiction, self harm, anarexia, PTSD, among others,

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Speaker 1: you just clearly haven't been listening. Whilst we must acknowledge

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Speaker 1: that the harm that drugs can cause, if we want

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Speaker 1: to have an open and honest discussion about child sexual

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Speaker 1: abuse in this country, we must also have an open

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Speaker 1: and honest discussion about trauma and what that looks like.

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Speaker 1: It can be ugly, it can look like drugs like

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Speaker 1: self harm, skipping school, getting impulsive tattoos, and all kinds

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Speaker 1: of other unconscious self destructive coping mechanisms. Do not seek

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Speaker 1: to shame or judge survivors for any of their choices.

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Speaker 1: For anyone who needs to hear this, it's not your fault.

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Speaker 1: There are survivor others out there who were terrified of

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Speaker 1: seeking help because they're afraid they'll be blamed for what

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Speaker 1: happened to them. They're afraid they'll be chastised for their

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Speaker 1: coping strategies instead of being offered support and treated for

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Speaker 1: the cause of their suffering. And what do you think

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Speaker 1: happens when they see the mainstream media deliberately brutalized survivor

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Speaker 1: advocates like me for actions I took when I was

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Speaker 1: nineteen and still trying to process something I didn't understand.

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Speaker 1: Publicly shaming survivors for their past is as low as

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Speaker 1: you can go. You've chosen to punish the product of

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Speaker 1: the evil, not the evil itself. I blamed myself for

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Speaker 1: what a fifty eight year old man did to me

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Speaker 1: when I was fifteen. In the years that followed, I

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Speaker 1: beat myself up relentlessly. I thought everyone around me blamed

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Speaker 1: me too. To cope, I engage in activities I deemed

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Speaker 1: befitting of a person as worthless as I deemed myself

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Speaker 1: to be. Shame is embedded in the experience of child

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Speaker 1: sexual abuse. It survives in every part of your being

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Speaker 1: long after the physical acts have ceased. Infused at the

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Speaker 1: unconscious level, you have very little control over it. Once

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Speaker 1: it's there, It's a life sentence that said, healing self love.

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Speaker 1: They triumph and total transcend all possible. But they require patience, compassion,

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Speaker 1: encouragement and forgiveness. They require ongoing community support. On that note,

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Speaker 1: it's with a swollen heart that I wish to thank

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Speaker 1: the legions of strangers and friends from all over Australia

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Speaker 1: who showed up for survivors by calling out the unnecessary

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Speaker 1: shaming stunt on Monday. Our foundation received a record number

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Speaker 1: of donations that day, bringing us one step closer to

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Speaker 1: a future free of sexual abuse for childrens and others.

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Speaker 1: Now that's a story worth publishing, She says, there you

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Speaker 1: go amazing. And then she has reposted this picture herself

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Speaker 1: of her sitting on a couch with this enormous bomb

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Speaker 1: and she said, all right, I confess we're doing a

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Speaker 1: cover of April Son and Cuba on the oboe, but

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Speaker 1: absolutely look at watch why shame someone who's surviving abuse?

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Speaker 1: Grace Tame, I admire you enormously. Jonesy and Amanda's Nation