You rarely get to see a more damning attack on an incumbent Prime Minister.
"Brace yourselves," Grace Tame says.
2021 Australian of the Year Tame - abuse survivor and advocate - with nothing to lose, outlining what she described as a threatening phone call from a senior member of a government-funded organisation asking her not to say anything damning about Scott Morrison.
"'You're an influential person, he'll have a fear,' they said. A fear? What kind of fear, I asked myself. A fear for the nation's most vulnerable, a fear for the future of our planet - and then I heard the words, 'you know, with an election coming soon'," Tame said.
The accusation effectively blew away the Prime Minister's apology in Parliament yesterday to former liberal party worker Brittany Higgins, who alleges she was raped by a colleague in parliament.
"I am sorry, we are sorry, I'm sorry to Miss Higgins for the terrible things that took place here," Morrison said.
"I didn't want his sympathy as a father, I wanted him to use his power as Prime Minister," Higgins said.
Instead of talking, Higgins wants Morrison to drive change.
"One year later, I don't care if the government has improved the way that they talk about these issues. I'm not interested in words any more - I want to see action," she says.
And her friend Tame is willing to put her reputation on the line by attacking politicians because she says they, like her, are replaceable.
"In any event I would rather go down as a disappointment to an institution than sell out as a pandering political puppet to the corrupt forces that coercively control it," Tame said.
