Our Australians of the Era deserve respect. So do the rest of us

Jenna Price
Updated February 11 2022 - 3:51pm, first published 5:25am
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame (left) with fellow victims' advocate Brittany Higgins at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Picture: Karleen Minney
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame (left) with fellow victims' advocate Brittany Higgins at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Picture: Karleen Minney

I first heard about Fleur's House of Fashion last year, from the proud mother of the designer. Gorgeous designer corsets made in Wollongong. I was gobsmacked to discover the maker was a 14-year-old kid, whose parents claim they couldn't sew on a button to save their lives (this, I am sure, is a gross exaggeration).

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Jenna Price

Jenna Price is a Canberra Times columnist and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.

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