Grace Tame shared an eerie tweet seemingly predicting Scott Morrison had contracted Covid, just hours before the prime minister officially announced he had the virus.
The former Australian of the Year made the cryptic post insinuating that Morrison caught the virus, more than six hours before the Prime Minister formally announced he had contracted Covid-19.
‘Scott’s finally caught the virus, I see,’ the advocate tweeted alongside a photo of Morrison smiling alongside broadcaster Piers Morgan.
Just hours after Tame sent the tweet, the Prime Minister confirmed he had tested positive to Covid-19 and that he was isolating at home in Sydney.
The former Australian of the Year insinuated Mr Morrison (left) had caught Covid-19 from Piers Morgan (right) after laying low on Twitter for almost two weeks
‘Jenny and the girls have thankfully tested negative but will isolate for seven days at home as close contacts,’ he said. ‘While in isolation I will continue to discharge all my responsibilities as Prime Minister.’
After Morrison made the announcement, many took to Twitter to say Tame had predicted that he had Covid.
‘Grace predicted this. Woman ahead of her time,’ wrote one Aussie.
Another joked: ‘Looks like Grace tame predicted correctly, when you get better [Scott Morrison, can you show me how to make a curry the way you do it?’
Ms Tame followed the attack with another jibe at the prime minister, adding she was grateful she had shaken his hand before it had made contact with Piers Morgan
It comes after former prime minister Kevin Rudd criticised Mr Morrison for prioritising a chat with Piers Morgan during a time of national and international crisis.
‘Let’s get this straight: Morrison didn’t have time to listen to Grace Tame & Brittany Higgins speak at the National Press Club; but he does have time to fawn over Murdoch’s newest star during a natural disaster and international crisis?’ he said.
‘Tells you where the power lies.’
Ms Tame replied to Mr Rudd’s tweet adding cheekily: ‘Just glad I shook his hand before it made any contact with Piers.’
Labor MP Stephen Johnson similarly slammed the PM for spending ’45 minutes with a talk show host’ during which Piers said they spoke about Ukraine, China, cancel culture, Boris Johnson, cricket and the host’s new TV show.
‘Brisbane is under water, Lismore is about to be. SE NSW is bracing for a deluge, Ukraine is under siege …. but sure …. Spend 45 minutes with a talk show host,’ the MP tweeted.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd criticised Mr Morrison for prioritising a chat with ‘Murdoch’s newest star’ during a time of national and international crisis
Labor MP Stephen Johnson similarly slammed the PM for spending ’45 minutes with a talk show host’ when two states were flooding and Ukraine was under siege
Morgan responded to the tweet and revealed he had met with Labor Leader Anthony Albanese the night before he met with Mr Morrison.
‘Well this is awkward, because I also spent 45 minutes the night before with @AlboMP… are you as angry with him?’ the broadcaster tweeted.
Ms Tame’s attacks on the PM continued as she retweeted an article on Tuesday sporting the headline ‘Missing: Scomo slammed on women’.
She added: ‘The first image this headline invoked in my brain wasn’t great’.
Her tweets come nearly two weeks after the sexual abuse survivor finally addressed ‘bong gate’ with a detailed open letter posted to Twitter.
The photo showed a 19-year-old Ms Tame sitting on a couch with a large bong – a water pipe used to smoke cannabis – smiling with her eyes closed.
The contentious picture was seized upon by the Australian of the Year’s critics who found it buried in her Instagram feed last month.
Ms Tame also retweeted an article with the headline ‘Missing: Scomo slammed on women’ adding: ‘The first image this headline invoked in my brain wasn’t great’
A now-famous image of Ms Tame refusing to meet the prime minister’s eye sent tongues wagging after the pair were pictured at The Lodge in Canberra on January 25
The image resurfaced just as she was criticised by the Prime Minister’s wife Jenny Morrison for having poor manners during an event at Canberra’s The Lodge.
Australian of the Year?’ one of a number of commenters wrote next to the eight-year-old picture on Monday. The image was then deleted by Ms Tame, now 27, following questions from Daily Mail Australia.
Other Australian media outlets to publish the bong photo include 7News, news.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and Brag Media.
In the open letter, Ms Tame spoke about how drugs can be a means of escape for victims, and that trauma from child sexual abuse ‘can look like drugs’.
Ms Tame’s letter, which quickly went viral, asserted that media outlets had tried to ‘discredit’ her by publishing the image.
‘To every media outlet who sought to discredit me by publishing THAT photo, although my humour and strength remain intact, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t let me down,’ she said.
‘Not just as an individual, but more so as an advocate of the survivor community.
The photo showed a 19-year-old Ms Tame sitting on a couch with a large bong – a water pipe used to smoke cannabis – smiling with her eyes closed (pictured)
In the open letter posted to Twitter, Ms Tame spoke about how drugs can be a means of escape for victims, and that trauma from child sexual abuse ‘can look like drugs’
‘At every point — on the national stage, I might add — I’ve been completely transparent about all the demons I’ve battled in the aftermath of child sexual abuse; drug addiction, self-harm, anorexia and PTSD, among others. You just clearly haven’t been listening.
‘Whilst we must acknowledge the harm that drugs can cause, if we want to have an OPEN and HONEST discussion about child sexual abuse in this country, we must also have an open and honest discussion about trauma and what that can look like.’
In her letter, Ms Tame acknowledged ‘we must acknowledge the harm that drugs can cause’, but drug use was a symptom of the fallout of abuse.
Ms Tame said that substances, in many cases of childhood sexual abuse, ‘are PART of the crime’.
‘When the man who abused me first tried to rape me, he used alcohol to stupefy me. I’d only been drunk twice in my life before that,’ she wrote.
‘Perpetrators often use substances in grooming and offending, first to lower inhibitions, and second to build a conspiracy with the target which prevents them from reporting.
Ms Tame, who was groomed and repeatedly raped by her 58-year-old maths teacher from the age of 15, said for a long time she blamed herself for what had happened.
The image resurfaced just as Ms Tame (right) was criticised by the Prime Minister’s wife Jenny Morrison (left) for having poor manners during an event at The Lodge in Canberra
Tame’s reference to the Dragon song was a dig at Mr Morrison who played a ukulele rendition of the 1977 hit during a recent pre-election interview on 60 Minutes (pictured)
‘In the years that followed, I beat myself up relentlessly. I thought everyone else around me blamed me too. To cope, I engaged in activities I deemed befitting of a person as worthless as I deemed myself to be,’ she wrote.
Ms Tame’s open letter, published below, came after she initially responded to her widely-circulated bong photo by launching yet another attack on PM Scott Morrison.
She reposted the photo to Twitter with the tongue-in-cheek caption: ‘Alright, I confess, we were doing a cover of ‘April Sun in Cuba’. On the oboe.’
Tame’s reference to the Dragon song was a dig at Mr Morrison who played a ukulele rendition of the 1977 hit during a recent pre-election interview on 60 Minutes.
The ukelele is the national instrument of Hawaii and Mr Morrison’s playing of one evoked memories of his poorly-timed holiday to the Pacific islands during the nation’s Black Summer bushfires in 2019-2020.
Images of Mr Morrison living it up in Hawaii during Australia’s crisis were a public relations disaster for the Prime Minister.
