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Title:
The First Stone (MP3)
Written by:
Helen Garner 
Read by:
Jennifer VuleticHelen GarnerLeigh Sales 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
7 hours 52 minutes 
MP3 size:
342 MB 
Published:
February 01 2020 
Available Date:
February 01 2020 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655647010 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian; Biography; True Crime 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Macmillan Australia 
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Award winning author
Australian author

Winner ASA Medal 2023

An account of an Australian sexual harassment case in which two female students filed police charges against a college official. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power.

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 controversial book that Helen Garner wrote about the resulting Ormond College sexual harassment case caused a media storm. Prominent feminists were outraged at Garner’s perceived support for the man involved, but many saw in her approach a necessary and much welcome nuance towards the power dynamic between men and women. Either way, The First Stone sparked a raging debate about sexual harassment in Australia, making it easy to see why even now, 25 years on, the book is no less sharp, no less relevant and no less divisive. This new edition, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of release, contains a foreword by Leigh Sales and an afterword by Garner’s biographer, Bernadette Brennan. It also reprints David Leser’s original 1995 Good Weekend interview with Helen Garner and her own 1995 address, ‘The Fate of The First Stone’.

'Travelling with Garner along the complex paths of this sad story is, strangely enough, enjoyable. The First Stone [is] a book worth reading for its writing ...'
Sydney Morning Herald

'This is writing of great boldness ... an intense, eloquent and enthralling work.
The Australian

'Garner has ensured one thing: the debate about sexual harassment ... will now have a very public airing. And it will have it in the language of experience to which all women and men have access.'
The Age

'This was never going to be an easy book to write, its pages are bathed in anguish and self-doubt, but suffused also with a white-hot anger.'
Good Weekend