9 March 2025
In the Drama Theatre
Talks and Ideas
Global headlines about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell often focus on the criminality of these two perpetrators. Now Lucia Osborne-Crowley, an Australian journalist grounded by her own lived experience of survival, reveals the powerful, lesser-known stories of courage of the women they victimised.
| Date | Time |
| Sunday 9 March 2025 | 10:30am |
| Ticket | Price |
| Standard | $35 |
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Run time
This talk runs for approximately 60 minutes.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Recommended for ages 15+.
Jennifer RobinsonA courageous silence-breaker. We need more journalists like her.
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A new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice
Perhaps more than any other journalist, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has meticulously detailed the nightmares that Jeffrey Epstein and his partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell inflicted on their victims. Enduring pre-dawn starts and sub-zero temperatures, Osborne-Crowley was one of only four reporters in attendance in the Brooklyn courtroom every day as Maxwell was eventually found guilty of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors.
In The Lasting Harm, longlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award, she details the trial and what followed, sharing the real impact of sexual trauma on the women victimised by the abuse and focusing on the harrowing testimonies that ultimately led to conviction. Her unique perspective offers more than just a recounting of events: it’s a critique of a system that criminalises perpetrators while failing to deliver justice for survivors, regardless of the legal outcome.
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Lucia Osborne-Crowley (she/her)
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is an Australian-trained lawyer, legal reporter, journalist, essayist and author of I Choose Elena, the Somerset Maugham Award–winning My Body Keeps Your Secrets and The Lasting Harm. Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, the Guardian, Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, GQ Australia, the Saturday Paper and Women's Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in the Lifted Brow and Meanjin.
Lucia's forensic but accessible reporting of the Maxwell trial was described as some of the best and most trauma-informed coverage of the case, and it saw her social media following grow by over 35,000 followers. She has appeared as an expert journalist on the Maxwell and Prince Andrew cases on several news channels.
She is currently working for Law360 as a court reporter from London.
Grace Tame (she/her)
host
Grace Tame 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. In December 2023, she broke the female course record for the Bruny Island 64km Ultra and in May 2023 won the Great Ocean Road Ultra as the first women and 6th overall. Grace raced Bruny Island again in December 2024 and smashed her previous record by over 8 minutes. 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.
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Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
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