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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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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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01:00 PM - 03:00 PM, 28 May 2011: Slutwalk!

Join SlutWalk, to make a unified statement about sexual assault and victims’ rights and to demand respect for all. Any gender-identification, any age. Singles, couples, parents, sisters, brothers, children, friends. Come walk or roll or strut or holler or stomp with us Whether a fellow slut or simply an ally,

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07:00 PM - 08:25 PM, 25 May 2011: Powerful, Passionate and Eloquent

That’s what Yarra Plenty says about The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] in their invitation to you to come and meet Leslie in conversation with Arnold Zable at the Eltham Library. Follow the link for more details, and see you then.

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07 May 2011: Leslie 1st Name Released for Brisbane Writer's Festival

The Brisbane Writer’s Festival has just released the first of our fabulous writer names coming to BWF in 2011. And the author is….Australian writer, columnist, ethicist and social activist Leslie Cannold! Follow the link to find out more about the September 7-11 Festival and read the full program

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06:30 PM - 07:30 PM, 05 May 2011: Meet Leslie at My Bookstore by Corrie Perkin

Read the Book of Rachael, or thinking about reading it? Want to ask a question or get your copy signed? Get along to My Bookshop By Corrie Perkin, 513 Malvern Road, Hawksburn (aka the Prahran/East Malvern/Toorak area). I’d really like to meet you. Questions? Call the shop

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07:30 PM - 08:30 PM, 26 May 2011: Q & A with Author Leslie Cannold in Williamstown

Feeling left out of the buzz around The Book of Rachael just cuz you live across the bridge? This intimate evening at the Book and Paper Bookshop, 20 Ferguson Rd, Williamston offers those in the west a chance to get their book signed, to ask Leslie questions, and otherwise get

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10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, 20 Jun 2011: Catch Leslie & Ita Buttrose at Noosa

Leslie talks to Ita Buttrose about why she wrote “Rachael” in the J Foyer at SeaHaven Resort, Noosa Heads as part of the Noosa LongWeekend Arts Festival My Sunshine Coast [http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/literati-and-glitterati-to-appear-at-the-noosa-longweekend-festival,21367] Coverage of the festival.

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06:30 PM - 09:03 PM, 06 May 2011: Keynote Address Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Awards

The Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence celebrate the achievements of Southern Cross University staff across Teaching and Learning, Research, Professional staff and Community Engagement. Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Lee will be welcoming Leslie to the Lismore campus to be a guest speaker at the presentation dinner.

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02:45 PM - 05:00 PM, 29 May 2011: Women of Letters - Dear Mum, I never told you....

A literary salon event in 12 parts, Leslie joins past luminaries like Myf Warhurst, Angie Hart, Clare Bowditch, Adalita Srsen, Denise Scott, Helen Razer, Catherine Deveny, Judith Lucy, Sophie Cunningham, Noni Hazlehurst, Virginia Trioli, Helen Garner, Roz Hammond and Sian Prior. Victims pen a letter to be read aloud. Come

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06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, 31 May 2011: Meet Leslie Cannold at Brisbane's Avid Reader Bookshop

Leslie discusses The Book of Rachae [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/]l with Philosopher and ABC online Religion & Ethics editor Scott Stephens Where: Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary Street West End Cost: $5 RSVP: Essential to events@avidreader.com.au or (07) 38463422

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06:15 PM - 07:15 PM, 28 Apr 2011: Andrew Bolt Gagging for Freedom - Talking Point at Wheeler Centre

The Federal Court action against columnist Andrew Bolt has sparked a heated debate between those who believe that his comments contravene the Racial Discrimination Act and those who argue that the legal action is an assault on freedom of speech and democracy. Whether you agree or disagree with Bolt, the

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07:30 PM - 09:30 PM, 07 Apr 2011: Leslie talks to The Friends of Emerald Hill

Join Leslie for a discussion hosted by the Friends of Emerald Hill at the South Melbourne Library on 22 Banks Street, South Melbourne. Open to the public. Follow the link below for more information.

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20 May 2011 - 22 May 2011: Catch Leslie at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival

The 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival proudly presents some of the world’s finest poets, novelists and authors of literary nonfiction, including 2010 Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours and By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham; the acclaimed David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns

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15 Apr 2011: Charlie Pickering launches Book of Rachael at Eurotrash

What a great night. Click the link to see photos from the event.

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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.

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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:

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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

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01 May 2009: Leslie to Participate in NSW Abortion Law Reform Forum

The NSW Greens have decided to start the debate on reforming abortion law in New South Wales. NSW common law on abortion is identical to the Victorian Menhennitt judgment, which was recently reformed and updated by more women-centred legislation passed late in 2008 by the Victorian Parliament. Join Leslie, Victorian

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06 May 2009: Co-Hosting Coping with Pandemics-Is Australia Ready? on ABC Radio

As H1N1 influenza continues to spread across the world, ABC local radio around Australia asks: how Australia would cope if it were hit right now by a pandemic, bio-terror attack or other large-scale disaster? The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved an extension to the shelf-life of anti-viral drug Tamiflu as

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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

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

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12 Mar 2010: Leslie joins Lyn Alison, Tanya Levin and Jane Caro at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention

Gold tickets are already gone, but there are still seats left for the Rise of Atheism convention to be held in Melbourne, the first global meeting of its kind. Laugh with Catherine Deveny and Sue-Ann Post on Friday night, hear Leslie and and unbelieving panel of women chat with Maggie

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23 Jun 2010: Leslie to launch NUS “Abbott’s Heaven, Your Hell” campaign

What: National Union of Students’ “Abbott’s Heaven, Your Hell” Campaign Launch\ When: Wednesday 23 June, at 5:30 for 6:00\ Where: Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Below is Leslie’s speech from the launch. Introduction: 3 things about me that explain why I oppose Abbott If you go

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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