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Leslie One of a New Generation of Australian Public Intellectuals

They’re rare in Australia, but former minister and Victoria University inaugural vice-chancellor’s fellow Lindsay Tanner names Leslie as one of the new generation of Australian public intellectuals. Publication history > A public role for intellectualsThe Australian 2010-12-08 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/a-public-role-for-intellectuals/story-e6frgcko-1225967178615

In the media

Readings Give Book of Rachael a Big Thumbs Up

Dr Leslie Cannold is an impressive and formidable writer. Her latest offering, The Book of Rachael, her first novel, takes what we think we know and turns it on its head. No surprises there: Cannold is considered one of Australia’s top 20 leading intellectuals. Her life’s work is

Writings

Mia Freedman & the Debate about Fat Acceptance

NOT long ago Mia Freedman tweeted, ‘'If you have to ask, your bum does look big in that. #rulesforlife’‘. She immediately drew fire about the sentiment and about it being made by someone who claims to be a body image activist (Freedman chaired the National Body Image Advisory Group)

Research

Understanding and Responding to Anti-Choice Women-centred Strategies

This paper discusses the rise and use of a ‘woman-centred’ anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do not really choose abortion but are

Events

18 Jun 2011: Keynote for Monash University Civil Celebrants

Members of the Monash University Civil Celebrants Graduate Association will hold their Tenth Annual Conference at the Treacy Centre in Parkville over two days in June. Leslie will speak on “Ethical Duties and Pitfalls for Celebrants in a Complex Age.” For further information contact John Shilliday on johnshil@melbpc.org.

In the media

Review of Leslie & other speakers at Global Atheist Conference

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/celebrating-life-beyond-belief/story-e6frg6z6-1225840634149 [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/celebrating-life-beyond-belief/story-e6frg6z6-1225840634149 ] Publication history > Celebrating life beyond beliefThe Australian 2010-03-15

Writings

Medical Refusal Rights Must be Regulated Before More Women Die

In 2008, Victoria repealed all abortion related sections from the Crimes Act. Among the provisions of the Abortion Law Reform Act that attracted opprobrium from the approximately 4% of Australians who oppose abortion in all circumstances was section 8, the conscience clause. Often misrepresented in public debates by opponents of

Events

10 Apr 2011: Inaugural Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival

Leslie will be discussing her soon-to-be-published novel The Book of Rachael in two Sunday sessions. What: New writer’s festival Where: Memorial Hall and LIbrary, Bellingen When: Sunday the 10th of April 9:30 – 10:30 Digging up the Past – Wendy James, Sophie Masson, Leslie Cannold, Chair – Rod Howard. 12:

In the media

ADF Facebook Racism Scandal - Leslie talks to 7News

Despite all their training, ADF soldiers old enough to know better have posted racist and insensitive comments on footage of them in Afghanistan. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/9070785/aussie-soldiers-in-afghanistan-facebook-gaffe/ Publication history > Aussie soldiers in Afghanistan Facebook gaffe7 News 2011-03-24

Events

24 Oct 2011: Leslie’s Public Lecture “Ethics, Moral Conscience & Medicine” at Newington College

What: A public lecture at the Centre for Ethics. The Centre is a forum for students, teachers, parents and the wider community to engage in discussion of contemporary moral issues, beliefs and values Where: Prescott Hall, Newington College, 200 Stanmore Road, Stanmore NSW When: Monday 24 October, 6:30pm For

Writings

Senator’s choices could mean none for women

There’s only one thing I have to say about Queensland National’s Senator Barnaby Joyce. I hope he’s telling the truth. “About Tesltra?” you might ask. Or Voluntary Student Unionism, where Joyce has sworn to vote against any Coalition bills that will reduce student services. Or perhaps you

Writings

Leslie and 44 Other Signatories Warn That Quest for Women’s Equality Will Be Turned Back Under PM Tony Abbott

The gender divide in support for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott is significant. Media analysis views it as women supporting a woman. This sidesteps the real concerns women have about Abbott’s views and past policies. Tony Abbott wants to take divorce laws back to the 1970s, with an idea

Writings

Why Australians Need a Right to Die

Senator Bob Brown has been trying for some time to repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act, a federal law that denies the Northern Territory and the ACT the right to legislate for assisted suicide. But the new-found power of the Greens and federal parliamentary arrangements arising from the hung parliament will

Writings

Women’s Rights? Don’t Make Me Laugh

It wasn’t true then, and it still isn’t now. In fact, it’s a big, fat porky pie. I’m talking about women’s rights and the scary potential that, however flaccidly they are enshrined in law now, things are about to get worse. Remember the salad days?

Writings

Baby Leave is not a Women’s Issue

The politics are stupendous. Tony Abbott, a former employment minister who swore that paid maternity leave would become policy over the Howard government’s “dead body”, has a radical change of heart. Now Opposition Leader, he promises to introduce 26 weeks of paid parental leave in the first term of

Events

27 Jan 2010: Leslie Tells ABC Listeners That Tony Abbott Will Make His PersonalReligious Views About Women Political

Writings

A Welcome Shift to the Political Middle Ground

Something is happening to conservative political parties in Australia and overseas. Left-of-centre parties have gained power in the UK, US and Australia by advocating agendas far more centre than they are left. This has left the conservative side of politics floundering, unsure if they should stay the course or contest

Events

03 Sep 2009: Leslie at 7pm

Tune in to Network Ten’s new current events format The 7pm Project [http://7pmproject.com.au/we-are-7pm.htm] to see me chat with hosts Charlie Pickering, Dave Hughes, Carrie Bickmore and Ruby Rose on Fiona Sing’s battle for custody of the IVF embryos she created with her now-estranged

Writings

Abbott v Gillard: Believing in What’s Awful, or Nothing at All

Here’s a question exercising some voters: What is worse? Casting one’s vote for a man who strongly believes in what’s awful, or for a woman who believes in nothing except getting herself elected? The conundrum exposes the two central items on our wishlist for political leaders: that

Writings

Womb Watching While Rome Burns

Climate change, soaring petrol and food prices, one in seven Australian children living in poverty and catastrophic levels of violence in some indigenous communities. These are just some current issues of national importance that most Australians would see as legitimate topics for debate. Sadly, the womb watchers think otherwise. It

Writings

Put an End to Abortion Whispers

As Prime Minister John Howard put it: “You can’t have a situation where every time somebody dares to express a view, they’re jumped upon from a great height and it’s said the issue is back on the agenda.” He’s right. The country needs to take a

Writings

After the DNA, will Abbott get a Reality Check?

Having found a lost a “son”, the Minister should be less critical of others The message from Health Minister Tony Abbott remains unequivocal: Kathleen Donnelly, the mother of his wrongly assumed son, Daniel O’Connor, is a “nice” girl. As the latest twist in the ongoing adoption reunion story broke

Events

12:45 AM - 01:15 PM, 07 Apr 2011: The Problem With Feminists at the Wheeler Centre

Should the aim of feminist writers and activists to show how great women are or just to show women? Grab a sandwich and hear Leslie on the Soapbox at the Wheeler Centre, around the Corner from the State Library at 176 Little Lonsdale Street. You can find a video of

Writings

Tony Abbott Has a Poor Track Record on Respecting Medical Privacy for Teens

A recent legal case in Melbourne, combined with the increased likelihood of an Abbott prime ministership, has resurrected fears about young people’s medical privacy. Seventeen-year-old “Shannon” sought support from a counsellor for issues arising from domestic violence and her mother and stepfather’s mental illness. Without Shannon’s consent

Writings

Parents Left in the Lurch

Parental leave – or maternity leave, as we tiresomely insist on thinking about it – is back in the news. Australia’s National Employment Standards now includes the right of workers to request 12 months of unpaid parental leave in addition to the year to which they are already entitled. A right