Leslie Cannold

Events

09 Sep 2011 - 10 Sep 2011: Leslie heads to Brisbane for the Writer's Festival

Catch Leslie performing at The Moth, and chatting away about The Book of Rachael, feminism and the role of the public intellectual. Or show up for a workshop on the ethics of writing from life. It’s Brisbane in the winter – you have to be there!

In the media

NZ Herald on Sunday cheers The Book of Rachael

The Book of Rachael By Leslie Cannold (Text NZ$40) Dr Leslie Cannold, ethicist and social commentator, was named in 2005 as one of Australia’s top 20 public intellectuals. This, her first work of fiction, is a brilliant imagining of the life of the fiercely intelligent younger sister of

Writings

Harry Potter and the Courage it takes to be that First Follower

As anyone who has followed my writings over the years knows, I cry easily. Which is why to those folks it will come as no surprise that the latest and final instalment of the Harry Potter film epic – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – made me cry. Not

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Would we judge Top Cop Nixon any differently if she were a man?

I admired Christine Nixon throughout her nine-year tenure as Victoria’s chief commissioner of police and then head of Victoria’s Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority. Recently, we were on the same flight to Queensland. While disembarking, I tapped her on the shoulder, introduced myself, and told her so.

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Gender-Bending on 774 Melbourne with Alan Brough

The role of masculinity today, can it stretch beyond loving the car and drinking beer? Can you be a home father and a ‘masculine’ provider? Damon Young starts off the conversation, which adds Leslie in at the point where Alan tells the story of a woman at his gym who

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Legal Rights for Parents to Access Kids' Facebook Page? Leslie on The Circle

Writings

Time for a Reality Check - It's not all about you

WE WANT it all ways and we’re terribly entitled. Yet many of us want to be inspired, and led, to something better. How else to explain that we, or political pundits on our behalf, cry out for political leadership yet – in the same breath – wax indignant that politicians aren’

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News without Ethics: Media the Murdoch Way

Fish rot from the head down. So do unethical businesses and corrupt societies. This is as true when the fish is an unethical business as one of the arm of liberal democratic government – executive, judicial or legislative. It is also true of the fourth estate or free press, the often

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Listen to Leslie and News Ltd's Joe Hildebrand Debate Media Ethics

Publication history > The DrumABC News24 2011-07-14 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-15/the-drum---thursday-14-july/2796234

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The Opinionator Rides Again - Leslie returns to Vizzard Show on MTR

Leslie takes to the air again with Vizard fill-in Luke Grant to talk about News of the World and the facebook beat-up about hijabs

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Leslie Co-Hosts The Conversation Hour with Raphael Epstein

Rafael Epstein was in the hot seat today, filling in for Jon Faine, and he was ably assisted by co-host Dr Leslie Cannold, ethicist, author of The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] and columnist. The carbon tax was the topic of the

Writings

The Myth of the Lying Victim - The case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

By anyone’s estimates, the rate of sexual assault in Australia is high. In 2010, the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recorded 80 victims per 100,000. This is significantly higher than the next two most common violent crimes – kidnapping/abduction and murder – that impact 3 and 1 Australians per

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Leslie discusses The Myth of the Lying Victim with Louise Maher

The real fall-out from the Dominique Strauss- Kahn affair won’t be known until the matter is resolved in court. But right now it looks like the sexual assault case against the former head of the IMF is unravelling in New York because the woman who’s made the

Events

06 Aug 2011 - 07 Aug 2011: Leslie at The Byron Bay Writer's Festival

Here’s details of the events where you’ll find Leslie. For more information on the full program, follow the link Saturday August 6 Macquarie Marquee 10.45am-11.45am I am woman: why women rock Leslie Cannold Fiona Scott Norman Kate Veitch Chair: Kristin Williamson Included in Festval Pass

The Book of Rachael

What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? Two thousand years ago, as a charismatic young preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read. In Leslie Cannold’s story, it is the women of Nazareth who

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07:00 PM - 09:30 PM, 03 Jul 2011: Q & A The Jewish Way

It’s a fundraiser and a night of laughs. Come join Leslie, Debbie Wiener, Rabbi Dovid Rubinfeld, Dr Jack Feldman, Zeddy Lawrence and more at the Beth Weizman Centre to support the Jaffa Institute in Israel. The Institute provides disadvantaged children both with after school programmes and residential care. The

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05:30 PM - 07:00 PM, 28 Jun 2011: Juanita Neilson Memorial Lecture 2011

Leslie is honoured to give the annual oration on the subject of Separating Church and State – Outrages and Challenges. The Lecture Juania Neilson Lecture is sponsored by Federal Greens MP Lee Rhianon, to encourage recognition of women in public life who are standing up on issues that matter. The lecture

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Perilous Adventure a fan of The Book of Rachael

Historical fiction is a curious genre. In some sense, the pleasures of reading historical fiction are similar to those we gain from reading fiction set in exotic landscapes. The thrill of seeing men and women living lives in such different circumstances to our own. At times, historical fiction can become

Writings

Leslie Wins EVA award for Column on Sexual Assault

The EVAs’s reward reporters who report responsibly on violence against women. In 2011, Leslie won the EVA for Best Opinion for her piece “There are many reasons women don’t report rape” on the media coverage of sexual violence by elite athletes in the AFL and her own experience

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06:30 PM - 08:30 AM, 26 Jul 2011: Last Tuesday Bookclub at Sunflower Bookshop

Michelle Prawer will be hosting a session discussing The Book of Rachael. The book will be discussed for the first 45-60 mins between the readers, and then Leslie comes along and answers question. Wine and cheese are also served. Grab your copy and come along to join in the

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Leslie on Catholic Hospitals refusing contraceptive advice to cancer trial participants

Doctors at Newcastle’s Calvary Mater Hospital recruiting patients into clinical trials involving a drug derived from thalidomide, a drug known to cause serious birth defects, have been prevented from giving patients information about contraception. Patients are provided with a ‘statement of reproductive risks’ but not advice about how to

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07:00 PM - 08:30 PM, 28 Jul 2011: Grab your Reason & Head Down to Embiggen Books - in Melbourne!

Leslie will be chatting about why we’ve stopped trusting science at Embiggen’s new Melbourne location near the Wheeler Centre 197-203 Lt Lonsdale Street, behind State Library Free but only 40 spaces, so RSVP to reserve your spot using url below

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The Joy of Conversing with Richard Fidler

He’s perhaps the nicest man on radio, and Leslie had the pleasure of chatting to him for an hour about The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] and all other manner of things Publication history > Conversations with Richard FidlerABC Local 2011-05-

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07:30 PM - 09:00 PM, 30 May 2011: The Great Debate - Has Feminism Failed

This National Council of Jewish Women of Australia’s (NCJWA) debate is a fundraiser, with Leslie as moderator and panelists that include barrister Colin Golvan, SC, and former Liberal frontbencher Helen Shardey. It’s on at the Beth Weizmann Community Centre, 306 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield.

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The Best Episode of 2011 of Australia's Top Rated Show Q & A

The panel at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Q & A – one of Australia' top-rated shows – was widely seen as the best of 2011. Leslie in her role as author of The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] joined Michael Cunningham,