Buy tickets for this wonderful one woman show at the Seymour Centre and stay for Q & A chat with Leslie afterwards

Join Leslie in conversation with journalist and Harkness fellow Ray Moynihan at the launch of his new book.

Leslie chapter on abortion is part of a stunning line-up of well and lesser known writers exploring atheism the Australian way. Don't miss contributions from Age writer Michael Bachelard, the ABC science writer Robyn Williams, former Democrats Senator Lyn Alison, and many, many more. Pre-order your copy of The Australian Book of Atheism today.

Leslie has been noted as an "immodest celebrity" for her regular Twitter appearances on Q & A

Here's a question exercising some voters: What is worse? Casting one's vote for a man who strongly believes in what's awful, or for a woman who believes in nothing except getting herself elected?

Around one in five young Australians suffers from mental illness. These include anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as complex conditions like anorexia and bulimia. Some 10 per cent of young Australians suffer abuse or neglect while one in five has a parent with poor mental health (21%) or a physical disability (19%).

THE gender divide in support for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott is significant. Media analysis views it as women supporting a woman. This sidesteps the real concerns women have about Abbott's views and past policies.

Coverage of the federal election in the past week was briefly interrupted by the WikiLeaks saga.

Important stories can hit-and develop-at the wrong time. Like in the days leading up to a coup that delivered Australia its first female Prime Minister. Such losses are an inevitable part of an unpredictable news cycle, but sometimes they must be resisted. Some stories are just too important to let fall off the radar.

What does Australia's first female PM mean for Australian women? Nothing. And Everything.

It's easy taking candy from a baby. That doesn't make it right.

Leslie and science educator Michael McRae ask how industry-funded research and marketing influences our health.

A recent legal case in Melbourne, combined with the increased likelihood of an Abbott prime ministership, has resurrected fears about young people's medical privacy.

On child support and whether men have become reproductive slaves

Leslie talks to Kate O'Toole about men and why you can't have half a baby or half an abortion

Lelsie can be found 6 mins 55 seconds in.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Henry Higgins posed the question in My Fair Lady and ever since Viagra began earning Pfizer more than $US1 billion ($1.2 billion) per year, the big pharmaceutical companies have been asking it, too. Why can't women's sexual problems be cured as simply and profitably as men's?

In the wake of yet another scandal and ministerial reshuffle in the NSW government, Leslie joins other ethical opinion leaders to answer the question, is it time for the NSW government to go?

Craig Venter is back in the news. The entrepreneurial geneticist recently announced he has created a new form of synthetic life. The new microbe, which thrives and replicates with only a man-made genome, paves the way for a world full of organisms that are built to order rather than evolved.

At a press conference after his resignation, the former NSW Transport Minister David Campbell has this to say about revelations he had visited a gay bathhouse:

'I made some personal choices which have put me and my family in this situation...I've apologised to them for it. I apologise to the community."

Corruption is the most serious moral scandal of our time. Why? Because corruption is a double-edged sword, a moral evil that may turn one chump's decision to bribe, extort or otherwise abuse his power for personal gain into destruction of the very systems that order our society and make this country great.

The 1950s was the apex of scientists and scientific credibility. My parents, like most of their peers, were taken in by heroic media depictions of Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, and the outpouring of scientific ingenuity in the cold war race to the moon. Like many of the children of this doctor-knows best generation, I was formula-fed, fully vaccinated and dosed with antibiotics at the first sign of sore throat.

Is it ever OK for a doctor to break the law to help a patient. Medical journalist John Kron talks to Leslie to find out.

Tony Abbott is said to be likeable. I believe it, though I've only met him once. Introduced by a Crikey! journalist in Parliament House Canberra, where I had gone to advocate against Abbott's continued ministerial control over the fertility control drug RU486, the Health Minister refused to shake my hand.

If you missed this event, watch the (not particularly high quality) video.