‘An enormous relief’: Jane Caro’s take on Grace Tame’s icy meeting with the PM

Author and social commentator Jane Caro says she felt “relief” when she watched Grace Tame’s icy meeting with Scott Morrison yesterday.

The outgoing Australian of the Year has divided public opinion after being pictured stony-faced beside the Prime Minister in a series of photographs at the Lodge, and refusing to make eye contact with him at a breakfast which was part of the pre-Australia Day festivities.

Ms Caro says Ms Tame’s reaction “was probably rude on one level” but she admires the sexual assault campaigner for her actions, and she doesn’t think she’s the only one who feels that way.

“For a lot of women and certainly for me there was an enormous relief in watching a young woman refuse to be placatory, refuse to please, refuse to be nice, but actually decide that she would be true to her real feelings in the moment,” she told Neil Mitchell.

“It’s because women are brought up all the time … to be nice, to placate people, to keep the peace, and we’re sick of it.”

Responding to suggestions Ms Tame should have declined her invitation to the event, rather than attending and snubbing Mr Morrison, Ms Caro says Ms Tame “would have been damned if she did, and damned if she didn’t”.

“She would have been criticised either way.”

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