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YouTubePaid Leave for Organ Donation Needs Monitoring
One of Australia’s leading medical ethicists says the Federal Government’s trial program of paid leave for organ donation will need to be carefully monitored.
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The Monthly's Hashtag Feminism lauds Leslie's Contribution to Destroying the Joint
by Robyn Annear
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Should medical abortion be subsidised on the PBS - Leslie on ABC Radio
Leslie spoke to 3 ABC Radio at 9:05 and The Drive Show with Raphael Epstein at 3:05 about the expected recommendation by PBAC that the Government place medical abortion drugs on the PBS for public subsidy
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Sexist Men & 30 per cent
Check out an excerpt in Crikey from Leslie’s contribution to to Destroying the Joint, edited by Jayne Caro and published by QUP.
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When 17 yr old's refuse life-saving treatment - Leslie talks to Mamamia
A 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness – known only as ‘X’ – is being forced to have a blood transfusion, after the NSW Supreme Court ruled that the teenager must undergo the potentially lifesaving procedure.
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Abortion Law Reform in Tassie - Leslie on Triple J Hack
Leslie talks to Triple J about Tasmania’s flawed attempt to decriminalise abortion and the admirable effort of Labor Health Minister Michelle Byrne to pass the first law reform bill that provides a harassment-free exclusion zone around clinics.
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The "Droolia" Dog Toy: Sexist Attack on PM Gillard or Just A Laugh?
In the wake of Leslie’s contribution to this Daily Telegraph piece on the Droolia toy, Leslie spoke to several 2UE presenters throughout the day – among them Sara and Dicko on the morning show, on the double-bind faced by women leaders across the globe.
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Topless Bars - Should there be a law?
Catch my chat on 2ser on whether topless bars really do attract tradesmen and whether – and how much – the oppress women.
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Leslie joins PM Julia Gillard on list of Melbourne's Most Influential Women
As the world acknowledges the triumphs and tribulations of women on International Women’s Day 2013 this Friday, Alana Schetzer shines the spotlight on Melbourne’s most influential females
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"Is it right to Judge?" Friday Talkback on ABC RN Life Matters
Join Leslie, Michael Jenson and academic Patrick Stokes on ABC RN’s Life Matters Friday talk-back with the sparkling Natasha Mitchell to look at the rights and wrongs of judging others, and why being judged – but not judging – tends to hurt.
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Catholic Hospitals Put Human Rights Push at Risk
CATHOLIC hospitals fear patients will use new anti-discrimination laws to demand abortions, vasectomies and IVF treatments now banned for religious reasons.
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Leslie on Why 40+ Women are Less Visible (and we don't like it)
In a Dick Smith store early last year, a 58-year-old woman made a silent protest. “All the screens and sound systems were blaring. [The shop] was staffed by young men and I knew I was definitely never going to be served,” posted “Airdre Grant” on the online news site The Hoopla.
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Making the Wrong Moves on the Rights of the Unborn
Leslie quoted in Punch piece on relentless pursuit of fetal manslaughter laws by anti-choice Oz pollies
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Leslie Warns Against Commericial Surrogacy
Australia should legalise commercial surrogacy to stop the exploitation of poor women and protect the legal status of children caught up in the booming overseas surrogacy trade, according to the Chief Federal Court Magistrate.
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How Sexist is Australian Politics? Melanie Tait & Leslie discuss on ABC Overnights
This week Federal Parliament erupted with claims and counter claims of misogyny and sexism after Prime Minsiter Julia Gillard’s speech on the subject. As Gillard’s slap-down of Tony Abbott went global, Melanie Tait spoke to Dr Leslie Cannold, who is a bioethicist and Senior Lecturer at the Monash Institute of Health Services Research; she is also an author and columnist.
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Leslie's Courageous & Inspiring TEDx Video Goes Live
“I had an abortion, or maybe I didn’t”. In this challenging talk, given to a sold-out audience at Tedx Canberra on 8 September 2012 , Leslie takes us on a 360 around shame. She asks us to question our most deeply held assumptions and prejudices about one of the world’s safest and most common medical procedures.
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Leslie on Weekend Sunrise with Rev Bill Crews & Marion Maddox
On the day after violent protests in Sydney over the Innocence of Muslim videos, Leslie & other moderates talk about the limited popular support enjoyed by the Australian Christian Lobby, and the importance of acting to protect the secular state.
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Hoopla Splashes with the "Let's End the Stigma" Flashmob 2012 Campaign
Leslie explains what the registration of RU486 means, and invites those in Melbourne to join the “Let’s End the Stigma" Flashmob.
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A mature debate is OK - Leslie quoted on the Second Sexism
DAVID Benatar knew what was coming. In the preface to his new book The Second Sexism, the South African professor attempted to get in first. ‘'It is worth pre-empting the joke that a book about discrimination against males must be a very short book,’‘ he wrote.
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Why you need to know what you don't know to write well
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.
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The Answer to Pay Equity - Cross Dressing!
Leslie in Jenna Price’s wicked column on the Pie Problem
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Young Women Shocked by Chivalry? - Leslie explains why
Is chivalry so foreign to Gen-Y women that they can’t recognise it when they see it? Apparently so.
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Leslie joins IPA's Patterson & and Mumble's Brent on ABC TV's The Drum
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.
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Leslie, Aly & Wright Feature as Celebrity Academics
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.
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Crikey! Leslie on Media Ethics in Slipper-Ashby case
Slipper, the staffer and the journalist: how close is too close?
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The Think Atheist Show Chats to Leslie
Fairfax Covers's Leslie's Speech at The Celebration of Reason
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.
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Leslie on Weekend Sunrise talking ethics of IVF & Sex-selection
Britain’s trailblazing gay dads 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, Leslie raises concerns about the consumerist frivolity of sex selection, until equality of access has been won for less well-off, single and gay couples to IVF/PGD to do what is was created for – help infertile couples have kids and avoid the birth of children with hereditary health problems.
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Leslie has tea with Libbi Gorr on ABC Radio 774
On Easter Sunday Libbi and Leslie chat about Dads, the Craig Thomson affair and drug decriminalisation.
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Leslie on the 7:30 Report talking fetal birth certificates
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.
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Leslie's ideas on Democratic Decline feature on ABC TV's The Drum
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.
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Leslie gets shout in Sydney Morning Herald piece on The King's Tribune
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 *
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Philosopher Damon Young Agrees with Leslie that Gender Equity Matters
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
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Melinda Tankard Reist Sues (#MTRsues) A Hot Hashtag on Twitter
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.
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Leslie Notes the Gender Inequity of the Tourism Australia Beauty Contest
A beauty pageant pitched as a tourism promotion has been described as an inappropriate way of selling our country.
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Crikey's Charles Richardson's Election Shout for Leslie
In his wrap of the 2010 Victorian state election, Richardson cites Leslie in his look at Baillieu’s future
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Leslie joins Chaser's Dom Knight and John Barron on The Drum
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.
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A "Radical" Look at Female Power
The Hume Weekly covers Leslie’s upcoming talk for the Hume City Council.
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Leslie's Big Ideas on Abortion Law Reform and Unregulated Conscientious Objection
Watch Leslie’s Pamela Denoon Lecture at ANU, recorded by ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas
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How Women Stood up for Themselves and Changed the Law of Abortion
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.
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Leslie Talks Women and Media Ethics at Byron Bay
If you missed the festival, listen to Leslie discuss
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Lip Mag gives Book of Rachael a "strong woman" shout
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 are more influence than entertainment.
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NZ Herald on Sunday cheers The Book of Rachael
The Book of Rachael By Leslie Cannold (Text NZ$40)
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Gender-Bending on 774 Melbourne with Alan Brough
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 has recently become a man and a number of people are uncomfortable with him going into the men’s changing area because he doesn’t have a penis but he identifies as a man.
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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 and columnist.
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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.
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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 a kind of decorative art: more concerned with the mise en scene of bodices and buckram than the exploration of characters and lives, either fictional or non-fictional. Not all historical fiction is alike: some works use history as a backdrop, inventing characters and stories, like the hugely successful historical works of Sarah Waters (Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet). Others take historical figures as a leaping off point, imagining into the gaps in the record, such as Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders, Caleb’s Crossing), or A S Byatt, whose The Children’s Book is something of a reimagining of the life of children’s author Edith Nesbitt. Still others seek to place more or less well-known historical figures at the centre of their stories, humanising and particularising their lives while aiming to stick, more or less, to the facts. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, for example, or Philipa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Leslie Wins an EVA for Reporting on Rape
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 of sexual assault.
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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.
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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 and all other manner of things
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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 joined Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Hours; Brendan Cowell, writer and actor Howard Jacobson, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and Pornland Author Gail Dines for a feisty and enthralling episode covering everything from pornography and sex to Israel and the power of words
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Book of Rachael Compared to Red Tent & Year of Wonders
Mamamia reviews The Book of Rachael. And the verdict is well good.
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Verity La Unearths The Hidden Books
Alec Patric interviews Leslie for this gem of a literary blog
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The Truth about Random Acts of Corporate Kindness
Leslie tells The Age that the profit motive is behind random acts of corporate kindness
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. Chat with Leslie starts at 57 minutes 20 seconds in.
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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 with Cannold, best known as an outspoken commentator on women’s reproductive rights, and it becomes clear that her passion for giving a voice to worthwhile causes extends to those who lived 2000 years ago, a time when she says women ‘‘were treated like animals’’.
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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.
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Leslie's Acceptance Speech for Humanist of the Year Award
The Age’s Michael Bachelard covers Leslie’s acceptance of Humanist of the Year 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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sydney Writer's Centre asks Leslie to Advise Developing Writers
Listen to the podcast or read the transcript of an extended interview that offers developing writers tips on getting published
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Vogue's Required Reading Includes Rachael (and that bad boy Judah Iscariot)
What if Jesus of Nazareth had a sister? And what is she were a bright girl forced by virtue of her gender into a life of servitude? And what if she hooked up with the wrong bloke? Many years ago Leslie Cannold a watched a BBC documentary about Jesus which arguee that he may have had a sister (and not a brother called Brian). The Book of Rachael (Text Publishing, $32.95) took seven years to write and imagines that Rachael siter of “Joshua of Nazareth” falls in love with bad boy “Judah of Iscariot”.
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Life Matters Interview on The Book of Rachael
Whether you’re religious or not, the life and times of Jesus Christ is a fascinating subject
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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 hard to imagine there is anywhere on Earth more sublime. Add to that a great big fuck-off platter of fresh seafood and the presence of an utterly enchanting media celebrity ethicist and your humble scribe is elevated to a plane of nirvana that losers like the Dalai Lama will never reach.
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ANZ LitLovers Compares The Book of Rachael to Atwood's Handmaid's Tale
This is, unquestionably, the best book I’ve read in ages. As you, my readers, know, I’ve read a lot of terrific books lately, but The Book of Rachael is splendid.
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What If Jesus Had a Sister? - Sunday Herald Sun Review
Rachael of Nazareth is an extraordinary young woman. She is brave, independent and strong and lives in the world of 30AD.
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MTR Radio - They Don't Hire Women But They Interview Them
Leslie talks to MTR’s Steve Vizzard at 10:30 about *The Book of Rachael *
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ABC Darwin - The Guestroom
Leslie chats to Kate O'Toole about life, the universe and The Writing of The Book of Rachael
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The Courier Mail Reviews The Book of Rachael
Novelist and Adair Jones commends Leslie for “creating a rich fictional world in which her characters search for justice, love, and the way to forgiveness.”
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Live on 3ZZZ with Michael Zylberman
Leslie chats with Michael Zylberman about Atheism, Secularism and The Book of Rachael
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Resurrecting the Lost Sister - Profile in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald
Novelist & journalist Jane Sullivan goes looking for the author The Book of Rachael
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Some Hard Questions from Readings about The Book of Rachael
Leslie Cannold, author of the critically acclaimed The Abortion Myth (2000) and What, No Baby? (2005), talks to Readings Monthly editorial assistant Phoebe Bond about her third book, and first work of fiction, The Book of Rachael. (Text, PB, $32.95, Ebook $19.95)
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Eloise Keating's 5 Questions for Leslie about The Book of Rachael
Bookseller + Publisher’s intrepid reporter asks Leslie about the novel that imagines the life of Jesus’ youngest sister
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Four stars for Book of Rachael from Oz Booksellers + Publishers
Hard to score, even harder to score well, the March edition of the influential Australian Booksellers + Publishers gives The Book of Rachael four stars
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Book of Rachael Goes on Sale
Seven years in the making, The Book of Rachael went on sale today across the nation
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Readings Give Book of Rachael a Big Thumbs Up
The Book of Rachael is “Essentially a love story about courageous people. It is fastpaced and the narrative is superb.”
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Leslie One of a New Generation of Australian Public Intellectuals
They’re rare in Australia, but former minister and Victoria University inaugural vice-chancellor’s fellow Lindsay Tanner names Leslie as one of the new generation of Australian public intellectuals.
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Leslie’s Twitter Contribution to #DikiLeaks Scandal Noted by Sheenal Singh
A 17 year old girl posts nude photos of St Kilda Saints players, and Twitter – including @LeslieCannold – ask the hard questions.
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ADF Facebook Racism Scandal - Leslie talks to 7News
Despite all their training, ADF soldiers old enough to know better have posted racist and insensitive comments on footage of them in Afghanistan.
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Rave Review of Book of Rachael from The Bookshow
The Book of Rachael “captures the imagination”
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Leslie's Q & A Tweets "Intelligent Missives"
Or so says The Big Issue. Check out their cover story on The Twitter Revolution
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Memo Mr Baillieu: You're Not in Favour of Discrimination
In a piece in The Sunday Age, journalist Melissa Fyfe wonders whether conservatives or “archetypal left-wing” feminists like Leslie have much to celebrate in the early months of Victorian Premier Ted Ballieu’s reign
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Shout from ABC Media Watch (the good kind)
Leslie breaths a sign of relief as her first appearance on Media Watch is for no more serious infraction than a mild case of bleeding heart. For details, you have to download the 21 February 2011 episode.
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Pre-Publication Review of Book of Rachael Just In …
… and it’s good! From Heather, at Fairfield books on Station.
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Good Review of the Australian Book of Atheism in the Oz
Check out the review, and the book, to which Leslie has contributed a chapter
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New Zealanders Eagerly Anticipating The Book of Rachael
The Sunday Star Times spruiks The Book of Rachael as one that “will intrigue those who enjoy a mix of speculation and spirituality.”
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Peter Carey & Leslie Cannold Among Draw Cards for Bellingen Writers Festival
Peter Carey agrees to be patron as excitement over inaugural Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival grows.
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The Book of Rachael Eagerly Anticipated in 2011
Leslie’s first fiction work among those cited by the Sydney Morning Herald in what the paper says will be a bountiful year for book lovers.
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Leslie Part of Twitterati?
The use by the Adelaide Advertiser of this image says they think so.
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Why Women Don't Report Rape on The Circle
In a week where sexual assault allegations dogged yet more AFL footy players, Leslie chats with the panel about her own experience of sexual assault and what it taught her about why women don’t always report rape
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Leslie Best Science Tweet Finalist
2010 Science Week’s Search for Australia’s Best Science Tweets
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Backhanded Compliment?
Leslie has been noted as an “immodest celebrity” for her regular Twitter appearances on Q & A.
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Leslie Joins in Adele Horin’s Exploration of Whether Tony Abbott’s Feminist Conversion Is Real, or Just Skin Deep?
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Leslie Nominated for Big Bang Blog & Tweet Prize
The Big Blog Theory Click here science blogging competition celebrates National Science Week 2010 by acknowledging Australian bloggers who contribute to the communication and understanding of science online. Finalists will be posted online on 9th July when public gets to vote for the winner.
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Leslie Comments on 5 Day Morning After Pill
European women have it and American women will soon. But when will Australian women get the Ella morning after pill?
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Leslie talks to Australian Doctor
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.
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Catherine Deveny wants Leslie on air
In a broadside at the new all-too-male radio station MTR 1377, Deveny names Leslie as one of Melbourne’s many mouthy women who deserves to be on air
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Likes Heels, Hates Housework
New Matilda asks Leslie Cannold twenty questions, including what’s lurking in the back of her fridge
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Review of Leslie & other speakers at Global Atheist Conference
“The least atheist of the speakers was bioethicist Leslie Cannold, who claimed to be agnostic and a cultural Jew, and raised plenty of laughs notwithstanding.”
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The Age reviews The Global Atheist Conference
“Broadcaster Phillip Adams and Melbourne ethicist Leslie Cannold urged atheists not to be too strident or fundamentalist as it could alienate moderate believers who shared their aims for a more secular society.”
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Catherine’s Shout on Q & A
Leslie got a shout from Catherine Deveny in this segment of ABC TV’s Q&A Read the transcript or have a listen. Key moment 33 minutes in.
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Leslie made Dying with Dignity Ambassador
Ambassadors say Let’s Get on with It and call on parliament to bring the dying with dignity issue to a vote
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Leslie Interviewed by Fairfax’s Sunday Life Magazine
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.”
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Leslie’s Idea on Childless Make the Australian Women’s Weekly
In the July 2009 editorial, the high circulation Australian Women’s Weekly, quotes Leslie’s ideas from her book What, No Baby in its comments about their cover story exclusive on TV personality Sonia Kruger’s decision to have a baby with the help of her gay best friend and co-star, Todd McKenney.
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Centennial Warriors by Elizabeth Kehoe
In the wake of the passage of the Abortion Law Reform Bill here in Victoria late in 2008, Elizabeth Kehoe sent me this beautiful tribute.
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Ten Questions for Leslie in this week’s Australian Jewish News (AJN)
Each week, the AJN poses ten questions to someone, and this week was Leslie’s turn. Catch the interview in the Life section of the Friday 24 August 2007 edition.
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Leslie Nominated as Feminist Icon
In the wake of the deaths of feminist icons Betty Friedan and Wendy Wasserstein, Book Standard reviewer Jessa Crispin nominates Leslie, Susan Faludi and Laura Kipnes as likely successors.
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Leslie elected to the board of Family Planning Victoria
Family Planning Victoria is a specialist statewide agency with extensive experience and knowledge in the areas of human relations, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health.
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Leslie listed as one of Australia’s "most talked about brains"
Leslie has appeared in the list of 20 nominated by The Age as Australia’s celebrity – or public – intellectuals.
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Leslie nominated as one of the most influential Australians
The 100 people who voted, and who they voted for.
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Leslie Cannold’s original ideas about choice may put her odds with other feminists in the fertility debate
The Mercury Magazine reports that while Leslie has often found her ideas at odds with other Australian feminists, she has proved popular with various media outlets where she has carved a niche as a spokeswoman on issues about motherhood, ethics and abortion.
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A Woman Fighting to Help her Sisters Have it All: an encounter between Sushi Das and Leslie Cannold
The Age’s Saturday Interview focuses on the events in Leslie’s life that led her, a partnered mother of two children, to write a book about the difficulties many of her contemporaries are having finding a man who wants children, and whom they want to have children with.
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Books
The Book of Rachael What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? Two thousand years ago, as a charismatic young preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read.
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.
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.