Australians like to think of ourselves as rebels but culturally we love rules, and aren’t always kind to rule-breakers
‘Grace Tame, the woman I’ve watched over the past year, has zero interest in co-option, no people pleasing compulsion to be grateful, no instinct to genuflect before smug, self-satisfied systems or conventions.’‘Grace Tame, the woman I’ve watched over the past year, has zero interest in co-option, no people pleasing compulsion to be grateful, no instinct to genuflect before smug, self-satisfied systems or conventions.
Van Onselen felt Tame was “ungracious, rude and childish … refusing to smile for the cameras, barely acknowledging [Morrison’s] existence when standing next to him”. So I’m not sure why one Australian of the Year, nearing time on her tenure and determined not to waste her public platform, has different rules of engagement. That all seems pretty arbitrary. This point of view begs a lot of questions: who decides who can be rude and the circumstances in which rudeness is permissible? Who appointed the rude police? Can we appeal their rulings?
Tame’s finale, her Australian of the Year coda, was entirely as you’d expect. This recipient has shown absolutely no interest, at any point, in being transactional about her honour. She doesn’t seem to want a shiny badge in return for a head pat. Having been silenced in the most harrowing of circumstances, this woman wants to speak, on her own terms, and if she gets that opportunity, she will not waste it.I don’t know Grace Tame.
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