Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is resisting significant pressure from pro-euthanasia advocates to rush through controversial and risky euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation before the state election in October. Continue reading

“Big Four” accounting firm KPMG has found that a significant investment in palliative care will actually save governments health care costs. Continue reading

“For something like this to happen in somebody’s home in 2020 is just absolutely shocking and appalling.” Continue reading

“Heads, I win; tails, you lose” is a fun game to play with young children because they often don’t realise that the way the game has been set up, it’s impossible for them to win.  No matter what they choose, they end up losing. Continue reading

“The impact of normalised euthanasia on our day to day clinical work in palliative care has been profound. Continue reading

New Zealanders will soon go to the polls to decide whether to allow the legalisation of euthanasia in that country. Continue reading

News has emerged this week of a further unforeseen consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic in relation to elderly and vulnerable Queensland residents. Continue reading

In Ontario, Canada in March 2020, 33 people died from COVID-19.  In the same month, 199 people died from euthanasia. Continue reading

While the rest of the country and indeed the rest of the world are putting plans on hold while we battle through the COVID-19 crisis and begin the slow process to recovery – of health, of social interaction and of the economy – those pushing for euthanasia and assisted suicide in Tasmania are pushing full steam ahead. Continue reading

Doctors in the Netherlands will no longer be prosecuted for euthanising patients with advanced dementia in circumstances where the patient has previously provided written consent.  A Dutch Supreme Court’s ruling confirms a lower court’s decision last year that a patient no longer needs to express a current wish to die. Continue reading