In the media

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Listen to Leslie and News Ltd's Joe Hildebrand Debate Media Ethics

Publication history > The DrumABC News24 2011-07-14 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-15/the-drum---thursday-14-july/2796234

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The Opinionator Rides Again - Leslie returns to Vizzard Show on MTR

Leslie takes to the air again with Vizard fill-in Luke Grant to talk about News of the World and the facebook beat-up about hijabs

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Leslie Co-Hosts The Conversation Hour with Raphael Epstein

Rafael Epstein was in the hot seat today, filling in for Jon Faine, and he was ably assisted by co-host Dr Leslie Cannold, ethicist, author of The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] and columnist. The carbon tax was the topic of the

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Leslie discusses The Myth of the Lying Victim with Louise Maher

The real fall-out from the Dominique Strauss- Kahn affair won’t be known until the matter is resolved in court. But right now it looks like the sexual assault case against the former head of the IMF is unravelling in New York because the woman who’s made the

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Perilous Adventure a fan of The Book of Rachael

Historical fiction is a curious genre. In some sense, the pleasures of reading historical fiction are similar to those we gain from reading fiction set in exotic landscapes. The thrill of seeing men and women living lives in such different circumstances to our own. At times, historical fiction can become

Writings

Leslie Wins EVA award for Column on Sexual Assault

The EVAs’s reward reporters who report responsibly on violence against women. In 2011, Leslie won the EVA for Best Opinion for her piece “There are many reasons women don’t report rape” on the media coverage of sexual violence by elite athletes in the AFL and her own experience

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Leslie on Catholic Hospitals refusing contraceptive advice to cancer trial participants

Doctors at Newcastle’s Calvary Mater Hospital recruiting patients into clinical trials involving a drug derived from thalidomide, a drug known to cause serious birth defects, have been prevented from giving patients information about contraception. Patients are provided with a ‘statement of reproductive risks’ but not advice about how to

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The Joy of Conversing with Richard Fidler

He’s perhaps the nicest man on radio, and Leslie had the pleasure of chatting to him for an hour about The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] and all other manner of things Publication history > Conversations with Richard FidlerABC Local 2011-05-

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The Best Episode of 2011 of Australia's Top Rated Show Q & A

The panel at the Sydney Writer’s Festival on Q & A – one of Australia' top-rated shows – was widely seen as the best of 2011. Leslie in her role as author of The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/] joined Michael Cunningham,

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Book of Rachael Compared to Red Tent & Year of Wonders

Mamamia reviews The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/]. And the verdict is well good. Have you found Jesus? The publishing industry certainly has, and they’re not letting him go. Why would they, when he’s responsible for so many sales? There’s

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Verity La Unearths The Hidden Books

Alec Patric: There are books we buy and then hide afterwards. They become our secrets. Sometimes they’re so difficult to keep, we get rid of the evidence. We won’t admit to having read them even though we might be glad we did. Books that might have been instrumental

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The Truth about Random Acts of Corporate Kindness

The 12-metre-wide helium balloon sent by Tropicana lit up the sky above the winter-darkened town off Inuvik in the Arctic Circle. AS A random act of kindness, it really was one to brighten the darkest of days. The 3500 residents of Inuvik, a community north of the

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Leslie is there as #Osamadead story unfolds on Twitter

Read how the story of Osama bin Laden’s death unfolded on social media and the small role Leslie had in it http://storify.com/abcnews/osama-bin-laden-dead Publication history > Osama bin Laden DeadABC News 2011-05-03 http://storify.com/abcnews/osama-bin-laden-dead

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The Weekly Review on The Book of Rachael

Leslie Cannold was perplexed. Among all the documents, internet sites and books she read about the life of Jesus, there was no mention of his sisters. Even the New Testament gospels proved unhelpful. The Melbourne-based academic, writer and ethicist was curious that “here was a famous person whose four

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She was a Q & A Tweet Screen Star

Q&A attracts up to 20,000 tweets an episode, more than ABC staff can read. RUDE interruption or invitation to take part? The tweets that glide along the bottom of the television screen during episodes of Q&A continue to divide viewers. For such a new technology,

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Melbourne Weekly Profile on Leslie & The Good Book

AS a social commentator (among the many other caps she wears), Leslie Cannold doesn’t shy away from controversy – she welcomes it. So it’s no surprise that her first novel, The Book of Rachael, is about the women of Nazareth – in particular, the sister of Jesus. Spend five minutes

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Leslie talks to Father Bob and John Safran

Listen to actors Kasia Kaczmarek and Zahra Newman, discussing ethnic casting in Australian theatre and to Father Bob talking to Leslie & raving about The Book of Rachael [http://cannold.com/articles/article/the-book-of-rachael/]. Chat with Leslie starts at 57 minutes 20 seconds in. Publication history >

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Leslie's Acceptance Speech for Humanist of the Year Award

The Age’s Michael Bachelard covers [http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/push-to-kick-religion-out-of-schools-20110430-1e234.html] Leslie’s acceptance of Humanist of the Year Award. Here’s the full Acceptance Speech: Australia’s Fading Separation Between Church and State Part 1 Australia’s

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Leslie made 2011 Australian Humanist of the Year

In selecting Leslie Cannold for this year’s award, The Council of Australian Humanist Societies are expressing their admiration for Leslie’s forthright views on such controversial issues as advocacy of abortion rights for women, family planning and access to assisted reproductive technologies. Leslie was presented with her AHOY award

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Leslie talks to Stu in China about Rachael

Leslie talks to China-based Stu about Rachael The line sounds like an intestine but a great chat nonetheless. http://rastous.podomatic.com

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Age Review - The Gospel According to the Long-Lost Sister

The writers who come to mind are David Maine and Frederick Buechner as well as the New Zealander, C.K. Stead, whose find book My name was Judas moves in territory close to that of Leslie Cannold. This kind of creativity is precisely what sacred texts invite… The Book of

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Leslie Co-hosts Jon Faine's Conversation Hour

Tune in to hear Jon, Leslie, Andrew Fowler, the author of The Most Dangerous Man in the World and Stephanie Alexander talking about a new grant for the kitchen gardens. Publication history > Jon Faine's Conversation Hour 774 ABC Melbourne 2011-04-14 http://www.abc.net.au/

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CityKat Talks about Abortion and Gives Leslie a Nod

Sigh. Somebody give me a martini and a room full of drunken celebrities and then we’ll see whose ‘private’ lifestyle choices are actually worth reporting. Such as: Which A-List Hollywood superstars have had an abortion? Now that would be a story that counted for something. Right? Latest figures

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I'm Supporting the Hotels with Heart campaign - are you?

Leslie joins hotel workers to celebrate their win against unfair working conditions at the Hilton. Next stop, the rest of the hotel industry in Melbourne. But the workers can’t win without you. http://www.hotelswithheart.org.au/community/i-want-all-hotels-to-sign-its-the-right-thing-to-

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Lithograph in The King's Tribune

Circular Quay on a sunny autumn day is a thing of great beauty. The harbour ripples diamond azure like a silken sheet, framed by icons at every angle. For all the cheesy postcards, the clichés and fatigued promotional footage, on the right day and with the right brain it is