Australian of Year Grace Tame has used her first public address to call for young Australians to be educated on how to recognise the stages of sexual grooming and psychological manipulation to protect themselves from child sexual predators in the community. Speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Tame said that the silence surrounding child sexual predation in the community allows perpetrators to operate. “Child sexual abuse remains ubiquitous in our society because while predators retain the power to get exactly what they want,” Tame said. “The innocent survivors and bystanders alike are burdened by the shame induced silence.” This, Tame said, could be rectified if Australians became open to listening to survivors creating awareness, and openly educating the society. “Grooming, it’s a concept that makes us wince and shudder, and as such, we rarely hear about it. To the benefit of perpetrators,” Tame said. “This must stop. Our discomfort, …