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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 range of toe-tappers in cafes and galleries around Melbourne. Sometimes, they even get paid.
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12 Mar 2010
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.
28 Feb 2010
A READER - a qualified scientist I'll call Ron - asks for my view on a dilemma that pitted his personal and professional integrity, and belief in absolute truths, against his love for a dying friend.
2 Feb 2010
28 Jan 2010
The Bankwest press release was crafted to provoke controversy. "More Australians Choose a Good Time over Kids Education." It had the same flavour as the bank's offering when it released similar market research last year. "Aussie families prefer holidays and Botox to private school education."
27 Jan 2010
4 Jan 2010
Parental leave - or maternity leave, as we tiresomely insist on thinking about it - is back in the news. Australia's National Employment Standards now includes the right of workers to request 12 months of unpaid parental leave in addition to the year to which they are already entitled. A right to request flexible working arrangements to care for a child under school age is also part of the "Fair Work" mix.
3 Nov 2009
With no room at the Women's, patients are at the mercy of religion.
3 Nov 2009
A district court judge has questioned the fairness of convicting a man who pleaded guilty to rape, for continuing to perform sex acts on an unconscious woman. Was the man really treated unfairly, or is the judge confused about what consent is all about?
3 Nov 2009
Rugby league star Matthew John's infidelity has raised the issue of staying with a partner who has strayed. Greg Cary talks to author Ruth Simons, about the thought processes behind cheating.
28 Oct 2009
A disturbing trend is emerging in the writings of those opposed to legal abortion. Since the passage of Victoria's Law Reform Act last year, they have been campaigning against the limits the new law imposes on the rights of healthcare professionals to conscientiously object to involvement in abortion.
25 Oct 2009
Even if we eliminate people smugglers, the people needing smuggling won't disappear.
13 Oct 2009
Would you want to know if you were carrying a gene that could kill you? What if there's a risk of passing it to your kids? Truly riveting television filled with Australians grappling with this issues in real life, with Leslie and Oxford Professor Julian Savulescu doing our best to offer insightful ethical comment.
12 Oct 2009
Every Monday, Radio National Life Matters deconstructs some old piece of wisdom with two guests. This week Leslie and Tim Wilson ask whether the grass is really greener on the other side.
11 Oct 2009
"From Hero to Zero" ran the headline, a nice one to describe the fall from grace last week of the Federal President of the Prisoners of War Association of Australia, Rex Crane.
29 Sep 2009
Your children have a right to sex education. This right is a component of their sexual rights, themselves a subset of the human rights guaranteed to them in international laws, human rights documents and other consensus statements.
18 Sep 2009
There is little evidence to support racial motives behind criticism of Obama.
30 Aug 2009
Circumcision used to be the done thing. Now, only around 10 per cent of Australians circumcise their male infants. But in Tasmania, they are trying to find a way to stop them. A recently released Tasmanian Law Reform Institute issues paper makes no bones about its desire to use the criminal law to prosecute some hapless Jewish, Muslim or Aboriginal parents for circumcising their boys.
11 Aug 2009
RU486 is available, but in Queensland a teenager is charged over an abortion.
 Leslie Interviewed by Fairfax's Sunday Life Magazine
9 Aug 2009
In the 9 August 2009 Body Issue Leslie, Federal Minister Kate Ellis, Ad man Russell Howcroft and plastic surgeon Howard Webster chat with Libby Gorr about "The Future Perfect."
2 Aug 2009
Years ago, when I was doing a Masters of Bioethics under renowned philosopher Peter Singer at Monash University in Melbourne, I signed up to the newly founded Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
1 Jan 2008
In her chapter in The Sorting Society: The ethics of genetic screening and therapy (ed. Loane Skene and Janna Thompson), Leslie advocates a balance between the rights of parents to decide if, when and what sort of children they bring into the world, and the need for social equity and justice.
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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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