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Australian of the Year Grace Tame has taken aim at the rhetoric used by Australia s male leaders, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to discuss sexual assault and abuse.
In an address to the National Press Club this afternoon, Ms Tame said she was not surprised by the recent rape allegations which have rocked Australian politics. Cover-up culture, the abuse of power, is not unique to Parliamentâ¦it happens everywhere, she said.
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Grace Tame addresses the National Press Club.(National Press Club/ABC iView)
The response of Australia s political leaders to the allegations was also characteristic of the current culture, she said.