Photo of stony-faced campaigner with PM divides Australia

Grace Tame, assault survivor who helped change law, called childish' and told she should return Australian of the year award

A sexual assault survivor who sparked a national conversation about the treatment of women and sexual assault in Australia has found herself at the centre of another fiery debate over expectations on women to smile in public.

Grace Tame won last year's Australian of the year prize after her advocacy was instrumental in overturning a Tasmanian law preventing survivors from speaking publicly about their assault.