Given her phenomenal recent speech at her old high school about her journey and the personal toll of activism, we thought it would be appropriate to revisit our chat with Grace Tame from earlier this year.

Grace Tame is an advocate for sexual assault survivors, and this year’s Australian of the Year. We asked her about the changes that she’s fighting for, and how she’s using her platform to make things happen – and discovered that optimism and humour are a very important part of how she operates.