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/

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’

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/

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

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

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

JERRY deWitt ‘'came out’‘ a few months ago. It cost him his job, and nearly his house, but he could not be happier because he feels he has regained his integrity. DeWitt was a Christian minister who stopped believing, and could not abide the hypocrisy in the pulpit. His

On Easter Sunday Libbi and Leslie chat about Dads, the Craig Thomson affair and drug decriminalisation. Publication history > The Tea Party774 ABC Local Radio with Libbi Gorr 2012-04-08

Britain’s trailblazing gay dads [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/britains-first-gay-dads-planning-768457] make their desire of for child number six to be female – and their intention to use IVF/PGD to achieve it – public. In this segment on Weekend Sunrise [http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/weekend-sunrise/], Leslie raises

In a cynical move, anti-choice party Family First in SA is backing one woman’s quest to amend a law in ways that could have negative repercussions for every South Australian women’s right to choose. Publication history > Stillborn definition faces reviewABC TV 7:30 Report 2012-04-05 http://www.

Leslie joins fellow guests and former Liberal and Labor politicians Bruce Baird and John Della Bosca with Steve Cannane on ABC TV News 24’s The Drum. Publication history > The DrumABC News 24, The Drum 2012-01-30 http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

In the wake of Leslie’s controversial article on the unacceptable concessions made to the religious of women’s rights, Philosopher Damon Young concurs with Leslie’s views that gender rights must prevail Publication history > The Symbolism and rage of VictimhoodThe Drum Opinion 2012-01-12 http://www.abc.net.au/

They said it couldn’t be done, but Jane and Jazzy are doing it – making a new Australian magazine sing and fly. Leslie gets a shout in a well-deserved piece on the surprising success of *The King’s Tribune * http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/from-bar-tales-to-a-muchloved-mag-20120123-1qdwa.html Publication history

Leslie was oft-quoted in the news media when academic and blogger Jennifer Wilson made public a threat by conservative Christian activist Melinda Tankard Reist to sue her for defamation. Articles about the controversy: Jennifer Wilson’s original blogpost [http://noplaceforsheep.com/2012/01/10/the-questions-rachel-hills-didnt-ask-melinda-tankard-reist/] Fairfax [http://www.smh.com.

A beauty pageant pitched as a tourism promotion has been described as an inappropriate way of selling our country. Miss Tourism Australia – a beauty pageant that will pick an ambassador to travel to the international final and promote Australia’s tourism opportunities – will crown its winner in Melbourne tomorrow Wednesday.

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In this episode, John Barron speaks to former Liberal adviser Richard Muller, The Chaser’s Dom Knight, novelist/ethicist Dr Leslie Cannold, as well as the author of An Unwinnable War, SBS correspondent Karen Middleton. Publication history > The Drum Monday 5 September ABC News 24 2011-09-05 http://www.abc.

Watch Leslie’s Pamela Denoon Lecture at ANU, recorded by ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/04/05/3181750.htm Publication history > Leslie Cannold on Abortion Law Reform Big Ideas Law and Ethics 2011-04-05 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/

The Hume Weekly covers Leslie’s upcoming talk for the Hume City Council [http://cannold.com/events/event/women-in-front-at-the-hume-city-council/]. Publication history > A "radical' look at female powerHume Weekly 2011-08-23 http://www.humeweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/a-radical-look-at-female-power/2266549.aspx

Watch a good yarn about what Leslie and other activist, providers, medicos, the media and politicians of all persuasions did to remove abortion from the Victorian Crimes Act in 2008, and learn what you can do to reform the law of abortion in your state or country. http://whv.org.

If you missed the festival, listen to Leslie discuss Why Women Rock with Fiona Scott Norman and Kate Veitch, chaired by Kristin Williamson. Listen here [http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/08/06/3287196.htm] Or hear her chair a talk on Media Ethics with Phillip Adams, Richard

Most readers could name a book that changed their life. For many women, it will be a book that got them thinking about the kind of woman they wanted to be, and they probably read it during a time of major change in their life. These are the books that

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

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