Anger has turned to sadness for Australia’s fed-up women

Prime Minister, all you needed to hear was being said right next to you.

When the Australian of the Year Grace Tame lifted her angry, defiant voice to cry “well, hear me now” after years of being silenced by sexual abuse, Scott Morrison was standing only a few feet away.

When she gave her incendiary Press Club Speech in Canberra this week urging sexual assault and abuse survivors like herself to “share your truth, it is your power”, the Prime Minister, his Cabinet — with one member off on stress leave and another soon to join her — and all the staff of what might be one of the most toxic workplaces in Australia were just up the hill, in a shining stone building under a slow-waving flag.

I’m sure they…