The speech you probably haven't heard.
'A Call to Action: A Call to Love' by ~ Grace Tame
"To the rest of the community, I ask you - if nothing else - you simply keep on loving one another, and yourselves.
You too have the power to affect positive change.
Smile at the next stranger you see. Hug your friends and family.
Thank yourself, for all that you are able to do, to move forward in this life, however slowly.
These are the seeds of progress.
The most powerful of all actions.
Together, as
one, we must action truth.
Grace
Tame, 7/2/2020
I respect Grace Tame.
Her recent Australia Day award
speech made me, at times, hold my breath from its intense impact.
I don't respect the award she won at all and this is why.
In 2020 we gave Bettina Arndt an Australia Day Award.
She received an AM for "significant
service to gender equity”.
Bettina Arndt and the interview she produced with Grace Tame’s convicted Rapist, was the devastating trigger that prompted Ms Tame to try and change the law in the first place.
The law that had been twisted from protection into prevention.
Stopping Grace Tame from speaking out, not only against this convicted criminal but against the lies told by the reporter herself, Bettina Arndt.
Ms Arndt publicly stated that the, convicted criminal's victim, Grace Tame, was sexually provocative. That this was a case of a man falling for a promiscuous girl and having a relationship he later regrets.
When this award was given in 2020, Ms Tame herself requested that Ms Arndt be stripped of her AM award.
Why?
After Grace Tame's rapist was
released from jail, Ms Arndt published an interview with the twice-convicted
paedophile on YouTube, titled,
"Feminists Persecute Disgraced Teacher".
In the 17-minute video, published
in 2017, Ms Arndt accused Ms Tame of "sexually provocative
behaviour".
"The question that remains
for me is whether there is any room in this conversation for talking to …
young girls about behaving sensibly and not exploiting their seductive power
to ruin the lives of men," Ms Arndt said in the video.
Short Clip of now removed interview.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/bettina-arndt-interviews-nicolaas-bester/11399466?nw=0
So, what happened?
A spokesman for
Governor-General David Hurley said he "respects the courage and
leadership Ms Tame has shown through her advocacy".
"The Governor-General acts
on advice from and recommendations made by the Council for the Order of
Australia.
"If and when the
Governor-General receives requests to terminate or cancel an award (such
as Ms Tame has made), it is referred to the Council for the Order of
Australia for advice and action."
~ Ms Tame's, statement at
the time.
"I just wanted to appeal
to his humanity and to appeal to his compassion and sense of reason here,"
she said.
"I'm not asking for an
apology or an explanation, but just a chance to show the Australian public, to
show the world that we do make mistakes, but we can correct them."
"To the powers that be, I
appeal to your humanity. I implore you to see reason, and ask that you consider
reversing the actions,". ~ Grace Tame, February 2020.
In a statement published on
Facebook and Instagram on Sat 8th February 2020,
Ms Tame issued a - "A Call to Action; A call to love"
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1472212399623440&id=100005040815616
Australia's Collective
Response? – SILENCE!
So why did she receive, the ‘Australian
of the Year Award’ in 2021?
Because she bloody well
did exactly what, she is asking of you and then so much more!
She SPOKE UP.
She did it continuously,
loudly; sometimes quietly, often!
She refused at every single
point, to be silenced.
It took years. A Supreme Court
hearing that required fund-raising for the $10,000 dollar cost.
She SPOKE UP at every
opportunity, to people who shamed and judged her, to people whose eyes and ears
were shut.
But....
She just kept on SPEAKING
UP!
Finally, she created enough
controversy, enough attention, enough moments of connection that people in
power could no longer, not listen.
She had changed their very laws
and in doing so changed their response, from one of indifference to one of
'recognition and reward'.
Dear Grace,
I am so sorry. Sorry it
took all of this! Sorry it happened!
Sorry, that as a fellow
survivor, I remained silent, for far too long.
I feel disappointment,
that I myself, did not personally know of your story until you received this
award.
It’s ironic that it is
what has brought you to my attention.
Allowed you to touch my
heart and release in me a sister like, warrior response!
So, let’s use
that! - Let's NOT celebrate this award!
Instead, I want to
celebrate you, Grace Tame. For your courage, your tenacity and your incredibly,
powerful voice!
Finally, THANK YOU! Thank you so much for inviting me, inviting all of us to the conversation.
Angela Kelly
Let’s use this moment to
respond, together as one, to her original call.
"A Call to Action: A
call to Love".
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1472212399623440&id=100005040815616
https://www.facebook.com/popegrace
#SpeakUp #roarlikeawarrior
#survivor #childhoodsexualabuse #GraceTame #IsabellaMurray #AngelaKelly
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