Former Australian of the 12 months Grace Tame has used a morning tea with the prime minister for recipients of the 2025 awards to share sturdy criticism of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
The 2021 winner wore a T-shirt that learn “Fuck Murdoch” when she was greeted by Anthony Albanese and his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, at The Lodge in Canberra on Saturday.
The PM and Haydon smiled and greeted Tame, however there was no seen response to the assertion on her shirt.
In 2022, the advocate for survivors of sexual assault additionally stirred controversy when she attended the identical occasion because the outgoing Australian of the 12 months.
When Tame and her fiance, Max Heerey, arrived, they have been greeted by the then prime minister, Scott Morrison, and his spouse, Jenny, who congratulated them on their latest engagement.
However Tame remained sombre as they posed for pictures, which famously captured her giving Morrison a stony “side-eye” expression.
She later addressed that second on Twitter, now X, commenting that the survival of abuse tradition “is dependent on submissive smiles, self-defeating surrenders and hypocrisy”.
“What I did wasn’t an act of martyrdom in the gender culture war,” she wrote.
“It’s true that many women are sick of being told to smile, often by men, for the benefit of men. But it’s not just women who are conditioned to smile and conform to the visibly rotting status-quo. It’s all of us.”
Tame had been extremely crucial of Morrison and his authorities’s response to allegations of sexual assault and poisonous office tradition in federal parliament.
The winners of the 2025 Australian of the 12 months awards shall be introduced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday.
Greater than 30 finalists are within the operating to be named Australian of the 12 months, Senior Australian of the 12 months, Younger Australian of the 12 months and Australia’s Native Hero.
