{"id":377543,"date":"2026-02-28T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377543"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:02:07","slug":"albanese-calls-grace-tame-difficult-in-word-game-draws-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377543","title":{"rendered":"Albanese Calls Grace Tame &#8216;Difficult&#8217; in Word Game, Draws Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 25, 2026, Australian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Anthony Albanese<\/a> paused during a Sky News event before describing 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame as &#8216;difficult.&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tame, known for her advocacy after enduring grooming and abuse as a teen, rejected his later apology as condescending, calling the term misogynist&#8217;s code for non-compliant women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics like Greens Senator Larissa Waters and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=jane-caro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jane Caro\">Jane Caro<\/a> slammed the remark, while Albanese clarified he meant her challenging life experiences and stood by the word itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exchange spotlighted tensions over language toward outspoken female advocates in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exchange spotlighted tensions over language toward outspoken female advocates in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9031,13977,19197],"class_list":["post-377543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-grace-tame","tag-jane-caro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377544,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377543\/revisions\/377544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}