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Dr Leslie Cannold
Dr Leslie Cannold is an author, researcher, ethicist and vocalist.
She worked for years at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, and now holds an Honorary Fellowship at Melbourne, as well as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position at Monash University. Leslie sits on various boards and committees, including the ethics panel of the Infertility Treatment Authority and the Human Research and Ethics Committee of the Victorian Department of Human Services. She is president of Reproductive Choice Australia and Pro-Choice Victoria, grass-roots advocacy groups that seek to maximise the reproductive rights and freedoms available to Australians.
Leslie's non-fiction works include the award-winning The Abortion Myth: Feminism, morality and the hard choices women make and What, No Baby: Why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back, which made the Australian Financial Review's top 101 books list in 2005. Her first novel will be published in Australia by Text early in 2011.
Leslie regularly gets her mug on the screen and her voice on the airwaves. She yakked about life, ethics and everything with Virginia Trioli for years on 774 ABC Melbourne, and now does the same with both Deborah Cameron on 702 ABC Sydney and Greg Carey on Brisbane Radio 4BC. You can find her on Radio National on occasion and also Triple J. Leslie has been seen on Q & A, Today Tonight, The 7:30 Report, A Current Affair, The Catch-Up, The Einstein Factor, Insight, 9am with David & Kim, Lateline, and is the resident ethicist on Network Ten's The 7pm Project. Since the late 1980's, her views have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Herald Sun (Melbourne), the The Courier Mail (Brisbane) and the national broadsheet The Australian. In 2005, Leslie was named as one of Australia's top 20 public intellectuals.
Leslie's cover band, Speedy Fish, plays left-of-centre toe-tappers in cafes and galleries around Melbourne. Sometimes, they even get paid.
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23 Nov 2010
Buy tickets for this wonderful one woman show at the Seymour Centre and stay for Q & A chat with Leslie afterwards
6 Sep 2010
19 Aug 2010
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.
18 Aug 2010
Leslie has been noted as an "immodest celebrity" for her regular Twitter appearances on Q & A
17 Aug 2010
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?
15 Aug 2010
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%).
9 Aug 2010
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.
6 Aug 2010
1 Aug 2010
Coverage of the federal election in the past week was briefly interrupted by the WikiLeaks saga.
4 Jul 2010
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.
27 Jun 2010
What does Australia's first female PM mean for Australian women? Nothing. And Everything.
20 Jun 2010
It's easy taking candy from a baby. That doesn't make it right.
11 Jun 2010
Leslie and science educator Michael McRae ask how industry-funded research and marketing influences our health.
10 Jun 2010
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.
10 Jun 2010
On child support and whether men have become reproductive slaves
9 Jun 2010
Leslie talks to Kate O'Toole about men and why you can't have half a baby or half an abortion
8 Jun 2010
6 Jun 2010
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?
6 Jun 2010
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?
31 May 2010
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.
27 May 2010
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."
23 May 2010
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.
16 May 2010
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.
14 May 2010
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.
9 May 2010
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.
13 Apr 2010
If you missed this event, watch the (not particularly high quality) video.
7 Mar 2010
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What, No Baby? takes us on journey into the lives of contemporary women who plan to have it all - marriage, motherhood and work - yet have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother.
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The Abortion Myth forges a new women-centred abortion ethic capable of preserving a woman's right to control her body and her freedom to choose or reject motherhood.
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