Inspiring Young Women's Award

The Tasmanian Women’s Council's inaugural Inspiring Young Women’s Award, affectionately known as The Graces, will recognise and celebrate young Tasmanian women including those with a trans and/or non-binary experience, who have demonstrated incredible potential, contributions or achievement out of strong self-motivation.

The achievements and contributions of the award recipients will be promoted and championed in communities across Tasmania.

The nomination closing date has been extended to a date to be confirmed

For information on how to make a nomination, what to include and to submit online, please see the online Guidelines and Nomination form.

For her bravery, motivation and advocacy the award is affectionately named in honour of Grace Tame, who was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women 7 March 2025.

Grace is a survivor of child sexual abuse, author, columnist, campaigner, and advocate for fellow survivors. She is the founder of The Grace Tame Foundation (GTF), a not-for-profit organisation which creates and funds initiatives to prevent, disrupt and respond to child sexual abuse. In 2022 she released her number one best-selling memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, which was shortlisted for three Australia Book Industry Awards. Between the ages of 18 and 24, Grace lived and worked in the United States as an artist. She now resides in her hometown of Hobart and regularly competes in ultramarathons around the country. On 2 December 2023, she broke the female course record for the Bruny Island 64km Ultra in a time of 5:04:07 and in May 2023 won the Great Ocean Road Ultra as the first woman and 6th overall. She is a regular columnist for titles including The Monthly and the Saturday Paper. For her contribution to legal reforms that allow child sexual abuse survivors to tell their own stories publicly, Grace was named the 2021 Australian of the Year.

Who can be nominated?

Young women, including those with a trans and/or non-binary experience aged between 12 and 25 years (inclusive) who have demonstrated incredible potential, contributions or achievement in their chosen field, passion or area of interest can be nominated.

The Tasmanian Women’s Council invites nominees from all fields of endeavour including but not limited to community service; humanitarian pursuits; activism, advocacy; art and music; education; professional pursuits; or in areas that women have traditionally occupied, but for which they go mostly unacknowledged and unrecognised, such as caring roles and in family life.

You can nominate an individual for the award if they:

• identify as a woman, including those with a trans and/or non-binary experience
• are 12 to 25 years of age (7 March 2025)
• reside in Tasmania
• have demonstrated incredible potential, contributions or achievement out of strong self-motivation.

We encourage nominations of Aboriginal women, women with disability, women from regional and rural communities, women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and LGBTIQA+ community, including those with a trans and/or non-binary experience.