{"id":446052,"date":"2026-06-05T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=446052"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:19:18","slug":"charlie-pickering-retracts-criticism-of-abcs-grace-tame-podcast-amid-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=446052","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Pickering Retracts Criticism of ABC&#8217;s Grace Tame Podcast Amid Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC launched <em>Autistic AF with Grace Tame<\/em>, a four-part series where the 2021 Australian of the Year shares her experiences as an autistic survivor of child sexual abuse, covering topics like masking and sensory overload. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jewish Australian broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=charlie-pickering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Charlie Pickering\">Charlie Pickering<\/a> labeled the hire problematic in a street interview with commentator Avi Yemini, citing misunderstandings of Tame&#8217;s pro-Palestinian activism\u2014including chants at a rally and her dismissal of October 7 Hamas atrocity reports\u2014but later clarified he was ambushed, expressed fandom for Tame, and spoke only personally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The backlash highlighted divides over Tame&#8217;s activism, ABC&#8217;s role in platforming her, and accusations of misogyny from supporters like actress Christie Whelan, while critics called the project tone-deaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backlash highlighted divides over Tame&#8217;s activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":403449,"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":[273,35],"tags":[14615,20388,13977],"class_list":["post-446052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-abc-australia","tag-charlie-pickering","tag-grace-tame"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446052","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=446052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446056,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446052\/revisions\/446056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}