Pages tagged "Australia"
New bill to overturn the Euthanasia Laws Act due in the Senate next week
Nov 20, 2012
Yet another Sydney Morning Herald report on euthanasia today says that Greens Senator Richard Di Natale will table a bill to overturn the the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 as early as next Monday.
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Green's Senator moves to legislate to allow euthanasia in the territories
Nov 19, 2012
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald today says that Greens Senator Richard Di Natale will move to repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act (known also as the Andrews' Bill).
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Crossing the Line? (and creating another arbitrary line)
Nov 12, 2012
Last Sunday evening the Australian Seven network (Sunday Night program
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Shifting sands in death debate
Nov 05, 2012
The Sydney Morning Herald has been continuing its run of articles on assisted suicide in the last few days. Giving some balance to the issue is another personal reflection from
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Beer Bucket List - a dangerous brew
Sep 11, 2012
Readers will recall the stories and my comments a few weeks ago about Philip Nitschke and Exit International's new death scheme, providing hypoxic (suffocation) death using nitrogen.
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Nitschke's public response to Medical Board questions
Sep 07, 2012
It took a while, but Exit International supremo, Philip Nitschke has responded today to the issues raised last week in respect to his latest move to supply nitrogen kits for suicides. Contrary to his assertions, my interest is not a political consideration at all. I'm concerned solely about the public safety aspect.Nor am I motivated to somehow dispose of a euthanasia activist. Nitschke's activism actually supports our cause in strange ways in that his advocacy for such things as death clinics and mobile death vans actually shows where euthanasia & assisted suicide type legislation ultimately could go.
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Nitschke & Exit must answer questions
Sep 03, 2012
The roll out of Exit International and Dr. Nitschke's latest project, the provision of kits that include a nitrogen cylinder to bring about death by suffocation, should ring alarm bells with the Australian public and regulatory authorities. His comments in the Herald Sun and Dennis Shanahan's article in
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Dr. Nitschke and Exit International have questions to answer
Aug 31, 2012
Today's national newspaper, , ran the article below (headlining page three).The Australian
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Fiji rejects Nitschke' death clinic proposal
Aug 26, 2012
The Fiji Times reports that the pacific state has no intention of going along with Dr. Nitschke's idea of creating a pacific version of the Swiss Dignitas clinic.
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Nitschke looks to Fiji for a Dignitas type clinic
Aug 24, 2012
News reports today suggest that Philip Nitschke is in discussions with the Fijian Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, about the possibility of setting up a Dignitas - style death clinic in the Fijian capital of Nadi.
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