Tame, Grace (1994-…), is an Australian activist against sexual abuse. She was the first Tasmanian sexual abuse survivor to publicly identify herself to the media. Her story brought national awareness to the legal and cultural issues affecting abuse survivors. 
Tame was born on Dec. 28, 1994, in Rokeby, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania. As a teenager, she attended a private Christian school in Hobart. Beginning at age 15, Tame was sexually abused by a teacher at the school. After Tame reported her abuser to the police in 2011, he was found guilty and sentenced to more than two years in jail. Upon his release from jail, Tame’s abuser repeatedly attacked her in statements to the press. However, Tasmanian law prohibited Tame from talking to the media about the case.
In 2017, Tame met with the Australian journalist Nina Funnell. Funnell founded the LetHerSpeak campaign in November 2018. The campaign brought awareness to the existence in several Australian states of so-called “gag laws,” which block sexual assault survivors from publicly speaking about their experiences. In 2019, Tame received an order from the Supreme Court of Tasmania that lifted her legal restrictions. She was then able to share her story with the media as she continued to speak out against gag laws. In part due to Tame’s advocacy, the Tasmanian law was changed in 2020 to allow survivors to discuss their experiences in the press.
For her work as an activist, Tame was named the Australian of the Year in 2021. Later that year, she founded the Grace Tame Foundation, which seeks to reform the legal system’s treatment of child abuse. Tame’s memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, was published in 2022.
