What Grace Tame’s Australian of the Year win means for survivors like me

It took me 57 years to “come out” with a secret I thought I’d take to the grave.

A friend had come over for a meal, my husband had gone to bed and we started talking “secret women’s business”.

We were talking about men’s behaviour and something in me just cracked.

I broke open as I told her how, at the age of eight, I was constantly sexually abused by my oldest brother. It all came pouring out, as I wept and snorted for hours.

The next morning, my husband found me asleep on the couch, wrapped in blankets, looking like I’d been in a car accident. I had no choice but to tell him too.

The next day, my friend came to me and said, “I’m here to talk…