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Grace Tame told a national conference about ending violence against women that organisations had cancelled her speaking work for the rest of 2026.

Grace Tame’s bookings cancelled for 2026 amid ‘national smear campaign’

After telling a conference how child sexual abuse thrives on silence, the former Australian of the Year revealed her public speaking engagements for the year had been cancelled.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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Australians have a good bulldust detector. It’s blaring at Albanese and Taylor

Voters want their political leaders to keep it real, but the PM and the opposition leader don’t always pass that test.

  • James Massola
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.

The PM’s biggest problem isn’t calling Grace Tame ‘difficult’. It’s that he can’t admit he’s wrong

Anthony Albanese knew what he was saying and who he was saying it to when he chose to describe Grace Tame as “difficult”.

  • Katy Hall
Grace Tame won the 2021 Australian of the Year award for her advocacy for abuse survivors.

‘Spare me the condescension, old man’: Grace Tame dismisses PM’s apology

Anthony Albanese said he meant the former Australian of the Year had had a difficult life, after labelling her “difficult”.

  • Brittany Busch
Anthony Albanese described the former Australian of the Year Grace Tame as “difficult”. He now says it was misinterpreted, claiming he meant she had had a difficult life.
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Watch as the PM calls Grace Tame difficult, alongside his explanation

Anthony Albanese described the former Australian of the Year Grace Tame as “difficult”. He now says it was misinterpreted, claiming he meant she had had a difficult life.

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Hanson could become our Farage, our Trump. Or she could just flame out

Barnaby Joyce wants to transform the One Nation leader’s party from personality cult to a modern political movement. But is it actually just one untransformable woman?

  • Peter Hartcher
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Malki Roth was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem aged 15.

Arnold’s daughter died in an intifada. He says calls to globalise it are ‘madness’

The father of a Melbourne-born girl who died at 15 in a Jerusalem suicide bombing says Grace Tame’s calls to “globalise the intifada” have grim consequences.

  • Matthew Knott
Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

Protest is the only option for the politically powerless

The prime minister and premier must take accountability for the demonstration at Town Hall – both for inviting the controversial Israeli leader to Australia, and attempting to deny citizens the right to protest.

Konrad Marshall ran every day for a year.

I was 46 years old with sleep apnoea and deemed ‘obese’. I decided to run every day for a full year

When the goal is to hit the track every day for 12 months, it helps to have inspirational people to keep you motivated. So who better than resilience educator, podcaster and sprint evangelist Hugh van Cuylenburg?

  • Konrad Marshall
Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and NSW Police deputy commissioner and counter-terror chief Dave Hudson.

Responsible reporting sometimes requires restraint

By exposing the police operation around the explosives-laden caravan, the Telegraph may have jeopardised the chances of catching the criminals, a reader writes.