{"id":649602,"date":"2026-03-12T05:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649602\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:09:17","slug":"grace-tame-says-smear-campaign-has-led-to-lost-speaking-engagements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649602\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Tame says ‘smear campaign’ has led to lost speaking engagements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says she has no further speaking engagements this year due to a “smear campaign” against her.<\/p>\n

Ms Tame, speaking at the No to Violence national conference in Hobart this morning, told the audience: “This is my last presentation of the year and it’s only March.”<\/p>\n

She started her speech by stressing she does not support violence or antisemitism.<\/p>\n

She also said she did not support Islamophobia or hatred of any kind.<\/p>\n

Ms Tame said she <\/strong>was “up against a well-oiled political machine”.<\/p>\n

In a post on Instagram last week, Ms Tame said she had “lost three speaking engagements on the theme of child safety due to an ongoing media smear campaign”.<\/p>\n

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Grace Tame is an advocate for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. (ABC News: Marcus Stimson)<\/p>\n

Last month, the Australian Jewish Association attempted to have her appearance at an International Women’s Day event in Bendigo cancelled.<\/a><\/p>\n

The organiser, Be.Bendigo, did not cancel her appearance and stated it was “committed to hosting respectful, constructive conversations”.<\/p>\n

It followed Ms Tame’s speech at a protest in Sydney against the visit of Israel President Isaac Herzog, in which she led a chant of “globalise the intifada”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The word “intifada” means “shaking off” in Arabic and has been used to refer to two periods of violent Palestinian protest against Israel.<\/p>\n

The phrase has different associations and meanings for different groups.<\/p>\n

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Grace Tame speaking at a rally in Sydney last month, during which she led a chant of “globalise the intifada”. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Some members of the Jewish community have described it as a hateful call for violence that implies support for terrorism, but for many Palestinians, it means continuing the struggle for Palestinian self-determination.<\/p>\n

The NSW government is considering outlawing the phrase<\/a> under revised hate speech laws; it has recently been banned in Queensland<\/a> when used to menace or offend.<\/p>\n

AI material a ‘public health emergency’<\/p>\n

During her appearance at the conference in Hobart this morning, Ms Tame \u2014 who was sexually abused by school teacher Nicolaas Bester when she was 15<\/a> \u2014 discussed the rapid increase in AI-generated child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

She described it as a “global public health emergency” and spoke of the lasting impact that child sexual abuse has on victim-survivors.<\/p>\n

Her presentation included data on offending behaviours and attitudes, including that those engaged in child sexual abuse were more likely to be older, married and socially supported, as well as using the internet intensively and frequently.<\/p>\n

Ms Tame said a recent positive change was the removal of the word “relationship” from criminal charges that relate to child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says she has no further speaking engagements this year due to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":649603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[38602,4740,5862,15168,29665,251391,275935,275936,50,4851,22391,7087],"class_list":["post-649602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-australia","tag-comments","tag-criticism","tag-difficult","tag-grace-tame","tag-grace-team-and-the-media","tag-is-grace-tame-difficult","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian","tag-speech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116214481866035395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}