The First Stone

Helen Garner
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In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power.
Genres: NonfictionFeminismAustraliaTrue CrimeMemoirPoliticsCrimeWomensJournalismHistory
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