Leslie Cannold
Dr Leslie Cannold is an award-wining author, qualified ethicist and researcher. Regularly noted as one of Australia’s most influential thinkers, she was honoured as the 2011 Australian Humanist of the Year. Her books include What, No Baby?, The Abortion Myth and the historical novel The Book of Rachael published by Text.
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Let's celebrate integrity
Leslie Cannold Two young Australian reporters refuse to reveal their sources and face jail for contempt of court. A former customs official is convicted for leaking reports about security breaches at Sydney Airport...
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Let's keep gender on the agenda
Leslie Cannold The dust may finally have settled on the gender debate sparked by Alan Jones's ''destroy the joint'' comment.
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Beauty cuts more than skin deep
Leslie Cannold Why do some women hate others who use Botox and other ''liquid'' facelift techniques but give men who use the stuff a free pass?
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Opening the gates to a better deal for women
Leslie Cannold This past Thursday, I 'live tweeted' highlights from London's Family Planning Summit.
MORAL MAZE
Barking mad: tolerance is still a two-way street
Leslie Cannold On Twitter recently, a high-profile equality activist announced that while she didn't love dogs, she did love things feathery.
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Disappearing act of the soul that's so hard to bear
Leslie Cannold TO HAVE lived a good life. Everyone wants that.
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Backward step for feminism
Leslie Cannold THE tweets were reactions to Chris Brown's appearance at the Grammy Awards.
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The name game is really a problem of socialisation
Leslie Cannold Why do women take their partner's surnames when they marry? Why, even where a woman keeps her own name, does she follow tradition and give her offspring his surname instead of hers?
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Close contest shows negative ads don't work and sticking to principle does
Leslie Cannold While Ted Baillieu's achievements in winning so many seats in one blow are indisputable, the result is a Parliament split right up the middle.
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Julia is one of us and all women are proud of her
Leslie Cannold IN THE tense hours between 7pm on Wednesday until Labor's caucus meeting on Thursday morning, women were emoting on Twitter: “My little boys may wake up to a female prime minister.
