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Kathryn Busch. Tutor of CCE

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Mary has taught a variety of art, history and English courses over the years and she has also exhibited her artwork in Australia, USA and Japan. She has been an artist-in residence at Bundanon in the Shoalhaven and also in Nebraska and California USA. She has masters' degrees in secondary teaching and textile arts. Both her writing and textile arts are heavily influenced by Japan and traditional elements of Japanese culture.

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Des Cahill studied Latin for five years at school and maintained an interest in the language through a lifetime connection with choral singing. Des went back to studying Latin in 1993 at CCE. In 1999, he enrolled as an Arts student at Sydney University. He completed two years of Greek in the course of his degree and graduated in 2003 with majors in Ancient History and Latin. Prior to this, in 2001, he was offered and accepted a position as presenter in Latin at CCE. Des continued his studies and in 2006, graduated with an MA in Latin. This was the very last MA awarded in Latin by Sydney University, which now covers the subject in a blanket course called Ancient World Studies. Following the “Oxford Latin Course”, Des has seen many of his students advance from beginners to advanced level. Several of his former students still meet regularly, improving their knowledge of the classics for their own pleasure.

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Anthony Callen. Tutor of CCE

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Iain Calvert. Tutor of CCE

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Nathalie is a native speaker of French and current PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on literary translation. Nathalie has taught French language courses at the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and the University of New England, Armidale. She holds a Masters in French literature from Paris-Sorbonne University.

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Ian Cameron. Tutor of CCE

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Marina Campbell was born in Russia and returns regularly for study, work and pleasure. Since 2002 she has developed and led a number of CCE study tours to Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. Marina holds an MA in Russian Studies from the University of NSW and taught English as a Second Language at the University of Sydney before joining the Centre for Continuing Education in 1998. Since then she has used her experience in teaching English, Russian and Polish to develop the Centre’s highly successful Russian language program which aims to provide fluency supported by sound grammatical knowledge.

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Artist – Freelance Retoucher/Lecturer

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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 “blank”>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.