Leslie Cannold

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16 May 2016 - 19 May 2016: Leslie flown to Copenhagen for the 4th Global "Women Deliver" Conference

Leslie invited to deliver a Ted-type talk on abortion stigma to the largest gathering on girls' and women’s health, rights and wellbeing in the last decade. The Women Deliver 2016 Conference in Copenhagen will focus on women’s economic development, education, violence against women and girls, gender equality,

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The Law Ain't Enough to Stop Cheaters from Prospering

Cheaters never prosper, or so the proverb goes. Yet over the past few weeks, revelations about match-fixing in tennis and rumours that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption will make no adverse findings against public officials behaving badly raises concerns that sometimes those with a case to answer may walk

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05:30 PM - 09:30 PM, 16 Mar 2016: Sydney International Women's Poetry & Art Festival 2016

Leslie is thrilled to be a panel participant at The Woman Scream International Poetry & Arts Festival. Women Scream is an idea that was born in the Dominican Republic in 2011, with events held in numerous countries around the world during March. The festival focuses on the prevalence of violence

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08 Mar 2016: Stories of Prejudice & Pride: Leslie @ IWD in Shepparton

Leslie will spend part of IWD as a panelist at the Shepparton International Women’s Day Event Stories of of Prejudice and Pride. Part of the Shep Arts Festival Details to follow. If you have a morning or afternoon event on IWD, or an IWD event taking place on another

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06:00 PM - 07:00 PM, 10 Mar 2016: Elizabeth Gower's exhibition ‘He loves me, He loves me not’ at RMIT Gallery

Leslie is thrilled to be opening artist Elizabeth Gower’s exhibition with Sushi Das and Dr Megan Tyler at the RMIT Gallery. The exhibition explores how women in particular are encouraged to seek validation at an early age, by conforming to prescribed behaviours, sanctioned body image, fashion, career and lifestyle

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06:00 PM - 07:30 PM, 17 Feb 2016: After Russell Brand: Making Democracy Work Better for YOU!

Globally, democracies are under pressure – and local government is no exception. A crucial factor for citizens is real power and influence over the decisions that effect their lives. State and local governments are implementing new measures to enable more direct and meaningful citizen participation, but it’s rare for real

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Ugly selfies are all about girls trusting other girls

Women’s rights have taken a battering this festive season. The Briggs fiasco, the Gayle insult to the professionalism of Channel Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin, and marauding hoodlums in Germany using women’s rights as a cover for a violent rampage against refugees all show the battle for gender equality

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Divorce - Because you deserve it

I caught up with a girlfriend in New York recently. She gave me a rundown on the lives of those with whom we’d gone to school. “She’s divorced”, was a description attached to many, though I was struck by the implicit judgment that came with my friend’s

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Is Malcolm Turnbull the Next Lady MacBeth?

Much has been said about the rise and fall of Australia’s first female prime minister. Particularly the fall. The consensus view was summed up by Labor senator and powerbroker Sam Dastyari on ABC-TV’s post-mortem on Labor’s six years in government, The Killing Season. “In one night, we

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05:30 PM - 07:30 PM, 30 Sep 2015: Leslie Hosts ZERO GENDER DIVIDE

Join Leslie at this Nitro and Diversity City Careers event focused on new ways of getting a gender equitable workplace. The panel discussion, featuring Sam Chandler, Gina O'Rieilly and a mystery guest is applicable to businesses great and small interested in using complementary collaborate to get to “gender

In the media

"Baby Steps to be Welcomed": Leslie on Pope's Forgiveness of Women who Have Abortions

Leslie tells The World Today that while she doesn’t believe women who have abortions require forgiveness as they haven’t done anything wrong, the Pope’s decision to allow Priests to forgive Catholic women who have abortions in the Jubilees year, could be meaningful to some Catholic women. For

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How do you like your Eggs? Leslie talks to 3CR Breakfast about Egg Freezing

Leslie speaks to Mitch on 2CR’s morning show about how a young, healthy women’s decision to freeze her eggs is an understandable response to an imperfect world. This event is past. Click the link to listen to a recording of the interview. http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/

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06:15 PM - 07:30 AM, 08 Sep 2015: Leslie in Conversation with Random House author Leah Kaminsky

The Waiting Room is award-winning physician and writer, is Poetry & Fiction Editor Leah Kaminsky’s first novel. It was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Writing Competition. Come see Leslie and Leah in Conversation at: The Avenue Bookstore Elsternwick 434 Glenhuntly Rd Elsternwick, VIC, 3185 More details on the link

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12 Sep 2015 - 16 Sep 2015: Australian Medical Students' Association National Leadership Development Program

Leslie will take a few workshops on inspirational, ethical and mindful leadership and be part of several panels on gender equity at the Australian Medical Students' Association National Leadership Development Seminar in Canberra this September. The theme of this year’s program is The Power of the Voice. Save

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01 Dec 2015: In the Media: Violence Against Women

Leslie has the honour of giving an introductory address and moderating a panel of experts on this issue critical to feminists, journalists and all those who care about equality and free speech. One not to be missed. Watch this space for further details about this important event…

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30 Jun 2015 - 01 Jul 2015: When Systems and Patients Collide - Leslie does ethics in regional Victoria

Leslie heads to Wonthaggi and Warragul to talk and conducts workshops on patient care and medical ethics to South West Gippsland nurses and midwives. *These sessions are closed to the public. * These sessions received great formal feedback from the Nurses that attended that the organisers have been kind enough to

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04:15 PM - 05:15 PM, 29 Jun 2015: Reproductive Rights on the Agenda for Melbourne's Young Doctors

Leslie, Dr Feelgood (Sally Cockburn), Dr Trish Newell and Dr Jane Thompson discuss Victoria’s abortion laws and the rights and duties it accords to patients and doctors. The debate is the closing event of the first day of The University of Melbourne’s MD Student Conference. The 4 day

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Leslie and Professor Peter Singer on ABC Radio's Nightlife

In the wake of The School of Life Melbourne and the NGV’s sold out conversation between Professor Peter Singer and Leslie, the two appear on the ABC to discuss Effective Altruism. http://www.abc.net.au/nightlife/podcast.htm

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05:15 PM - 06:30 PM, 10 Jun 2015: Leslie interviews Kylie & Alan Trounson at Melb Convo/MTC Event

Leslie returns to the MTC stage to chat with playwright Kylie Trounson, her famous Dad and legal infertility expert Loane Skene about all things Assisted Reproduction. The event precedes a performance of The Waiting Room, in which Kylie explores the world before and after her father, Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson,

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09:00 AM - 01:00 PM, 13 Jul 2015: Leslie support Secondary Teachers to support Digital Native teens

Leslie will talk to senior pastoral staff at Padua College about informing, supporting and guiding young people through the difficult teen years – online and off. This event is not open to the public

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06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, 29 Apr 2015: Exposing Others In Your Memoir - What's Right and Wrong?

Good memoir demands intense exposure and honesty from authors. But authors do more than expose themselves. Few people are islands unto themselves, and memoir may involve others who are unwilling or unable to consent to having their stories told. In this seminar, we will look at the dilemmas posed by

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The Time for Women is NOW

The campaign for gender equity needs bold ideas, powerful technology and the potent rage of a new generation When I was a girl growing up in Regan America, I yearned to have been born in different times. To me, the 1960s seemed to be a golden era of egalitarianism and

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06:30 PM - 08:00 PM, 13 May 2015: Leslie to interview "Quiet Inquisition" film-maker Alessandra Zeka

Come see the Australian premier of The Quiet Inquisition, a documentary about abortion in Nicaragua by Alessandra Zeka and Holen Sabrina Kahn (Spanish with English Subtitles) Nicaragua is one of five countries where it is illegal to terminate a pregnancy, even in instances of rape, incest, or to save the

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Medical Refusal Rights: Why pregnant women have them, too

Today, we learned about the death of a 28-year-old pregnant woman from Sydney. She didn’t die today. She died last year, or perhaps even earlier. But we are hearing her story now because of a letter two of the women’s doctors have written about the case. The letter,

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05:45 PM - 08:03 PM, 02 Apr 2015: How to Live Better Everyday - Leslie at inaugural TSOL Live Event

Looking at familiar things through new eyes can be one of the most creative and inspiring ways to come up with ideas or just think differently. This April at The School of Life we’ve brought together some of Australia’s key thinkers to share ideas that will transform how