 Criminalization of marital rape in Australia began with the state of New South Wales in 1981, followed by all other states from 1985 to 1992.Prominent writer Helen Garner attracted widespread controversy for her 1995 non-fiction reportage "The First Stone", which details the fallout from a sexual harassment scandal aimed at a well-respected master at the University of Melbourne.Garner, who could not access the two female complainants due to their refusal to speak to her, used her own personal experiences to highlight feminism, female and male sexuality, sexual harassment, as well as abuse of power and fraternalism in universities.