Leslie Cannold

In the media

Leslie on Weekend Sunrise with Rev Bill Crews & Marion Maddox

On the day after violent protests in Sydney over the Innocence of Muslim videos, Leslie & other moderates talk about the limited popular support enjoyed by the Australian Christian Lobby, and the importance of acting to protect the secular state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rls7Vv9bJRk&feature=plcp

Events

09:00 PM - 11:00 PM, 29 Sep 2012: Speedy Fish plays The Elwood Lounge

Come along and hear Leslie’s three piece rock with toe-tappers from the 70s onwards, covered in Speedy Fish style. Then head home for a good night’s rest before the 10:15am call for the Reproductive Choice Australia “Let’s End the Stigma” Flashmob [http://www.reproductivechoiceaustralia.org.au/

In the media

Hoopla Splashes with the "Let's End the Stigma" Flashmob 2012 Campaign

Leslie explains what the registration of RU486 means, and invites those in Melbourne to join the “Let’s End the Stigma" Flashmob [http://www.reproductivechoiceaustralia.org.au/flashmob]. http://thehoopla.com.au/ru486-approval20-years-on/ Publication history > RU486 Gets ApprovalThe Hoopla 2012-08-30 http://thehoopla.com.au/ru486-approval20-years-on/

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19 Sep 2012: Leslie's Speech on Ethical Leadership - Learn it, Live it!

Leslie to inspire and challenge emerging leaders from 57 different countries at the Leadership for Development Conference in Canberra. This event not open to the public

In the media

A mature debate is OK - Leslie quoted on the Second Sexism

DAVID Benatar knew what was coming. In the preface to his new book The Second Sexism, the South African professor attempted to get in first. ‘'It is worth pre-empting the joke that a book about discrimination against males must be a very short book,’‘ he wrote. At almost 300

In the media

Why you need to know what you don't know to write well

In the lead-up to the Mudgee Writer’s Festival, Leslie chats to Dugald Saunders on why you need to know what you don’t know to write well. Publication history > Mudgee Readers' Festival - Leslie CannoldABC Local Western Plains NSW 2012-08-16 http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/

In the media

The Answer to Pay Equity - Cross Dressing!

Looking for a way to make sure that men and women have equal pay? The answer is cross-dressing. But before I go there, let’s talk about paint samples. We are looking at the same paint sample and we are arguing. About colour. I say it’s the most gorgeous

In the media

Young Women Shocked by Chivalry? - Leslie explains why

Is chivalry so foreign to Gen-Y women that they can’t recognise it when they see it? Apparently so. In a scathing article this week, university student Sasha Burden described the systemic sexism she encountered during a “horrific” two-week internship at a Melbourne daily newspaper. According to Burden, the Herald-Sun’

Events

07:00 AM - 08:30 PM, 03 Sep 2012: Leslie Presents to the Boys and Teachers at Scotch College

The well-known breakfast series at top boys private school Scotch has drawn Julian Burnside, Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Bernard Salt, Russel Howcroft, Stephen Mayne, Greg Baum, Dr Keith Suter, and Waleed Aly to the podium. Now, it’s Leslie’s turn. She’ll be talking about Social Media, and how we

Writings

Leslie on the Life-Changing Value of Contraception to the World's Poorest Women

THIS past Thursday, I “live tweeted” highlights from London’s Family Planning Summit, a joint enterprise of the Gates Foundation and the British government. The best of the summit was rolled out for a Sydney conference room crowded with men and women whose tireless advocacy for family planning services in

Writings

Leslie on Silence, Shame and Botox

Why do some women hate others who use Botox and other ‘'liquid’‘ facelift techniques but give men who use the stuff a free pass? We like to think of ourselves as individuals and the decisions we make about how we keep our skin, hair and body as based on

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03:30 PM - 04:30 PM, 05 Aug 2012: Leslie joins the "Hell-House" Panel on Morality

Every year in the USA’s Bible belt, thousands of Christians engage in a unique form of community theatre via a modern-day morality play called Hell House. Written by Baptist Minister, Pastor Keenan Roberts, the performance takes the form of a haunted house tour, with each room themed around a

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25 Aug 2012: Leslie interviews the most hated woman in Lebanon - Joumana Haddad

‘The Arab woman’ is often considered a homogenous identity. Joumana Haddad’s I Killed Scheherazade is a powerful riposte to hypocrisies regarding free speech, prejudice and womanhood, within and outside Islam and the Middle East. In what has been billed as one of the highlights of the MWF, Leslie talks

In the media

Leslie joins IPA's Patterson & and Mumble's Brent on ABC TV's The Drum

In this segment, Leslie and Peter question the Institute of Public Affair’s Patterson’s view that the society = the economy, and that what’s good for business is what’s good for society. The discussion was prompted by Don Argus’s assertion [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/

In the media

Leslie, Aly & Wright Feature as Celebrity Academics

Celebrity academics – on the rise or the wane? And is that term fair, or is a better one public intellectual? Clare Wright, Walid Aly and Leslie feature in The Age’s feature piece by author and freelance journo Liz Porter. bit.ly/L5UnGD Publication history > A leap into the

Events

14 Sep 2012: Nurturing Rising Academic Talent at James Cook

Leslie joins the team at James Cook to nurture the university’s early career rising stars. *This Event is NOT open to the public. *

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07:30 AM - 09:00 AM, 12 Jul 2012: Leslie Tweets The Family Planning Summit via London

Leslie will be live tweeting the Sydney breakfast briefing, hosted by Marie Stopes International. Jackie Frank, editor of Marie Claire, will MC a breakfast meeting where highlights from the Bill and Melinda Gates hosted Family Planning Summit – a significant moment in the world’s global sexual and reproductive health history

In the media

Crikey! Leslie on Media Ethics in Slipper-Ashby case

Slipper, the staffer and the journalist: how close is too close? Crikey media reporter Matthew Knott writes: The Peter Slipper affair hasn’t only raised awkward questions about what does and doesn’t constitute s-xual harassment — it’s re-opened a debate almost as old as journalism itself: how close should

Events

11:00 PM - 11:30 PM, 21 Jun 2012: Leslie Tweets Lateline

You have Twitter account, and follow Leslie @LeslieCannold. Leslie uses the #Lateline hashtag and “tweets” the news. Unique? Interesting? Tune in to Lateline on ABC 1 this Thursday 21 June 2012 and find out.

In the media

The Think Atheist Show Chats to Leslie

Listen to internet radio [http://www.blogtalkradio.com] with Think Atheist [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thinkatheist] on Blog Talk Radio Publication history > The Think Atheist ShowBlog Talk Radio 2012-06-11 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thinkatheist/2012/06/11/episode-62-dr-leslie-cannold-jun-10-2012

Events

06:34 PM - 08:30 PM, 31 May 2012: Leslie to join Lyn Alison in Honouring Ron Williams

Come along to Embiggen Books, 197-203 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, to see the Humanist of the Year mantle pass from Leslie to Ron Williams, who has taken the fight to separate Church and State in Australia all the way to the High Court of Australia. Leslie and Lyn Alison will

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10:00 AM - 01:30 PM, 17 Aug 2012: Ethical Considerations for School Principals with Leslie

Leslie heads to Canberra to give a keynote and run a workshop for the NSW Principals to help them think through the ethical issues they face educating the nation’s children. This event is closed to the public

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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, 10 Jul 2012: Leslie lunches with the U3A

Join the seniors of U3A Baw Baw at their annual Literary Luncheon to hear Leslie discuss her best-selling novel The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/]. Where: The Black Tie (formerly The Elizabethan), Alfred Street, Warragul For more information, contact Esther Martin [martine@dcsi.net.au], President

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03:00 PM - 04:00 PM, 29 May 2012: The Business of Being a Writer

Griffith Review and The Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers are proudly sponsoring Leslie to teach a session on how to get your voice heard in the newspapers and magazines. Where: The Gryphon Gallery, in the 1888 Building @ The University of Melbourne. Not Open to the Public

Writings

To Publish - or to e-publish?

Once upon of time there was a tribe called the Very Smarts. The Very Smarts lived on a island where they planted, tended and then harvested trees from which they carved beautiful and much-sought after canoes. But while the Very Smarts were wonderful craftspeople, they had neither the interest nor