Pages tagged "Northern Territory"
More nonsense from the panel that will design Daniel Andrews' death law
Feb 20, 2017
by Paul Russell: In what is clearly becoming a drip feed exercise, Dr Brian Owler, head of Premier Daniel Andrews' advisory panel charged with creating an assisted suicide law for Victoria, was talking in the pages of The Australian newspaper (again) about the supposed safeguards he and his team are working on.The latest supposed 'safeguard' is what they're calling a 'time to live' option. Whereas the original recommendation of the parliamentary committee was that assisted suicide be made available in the last 'weeks and months' of life, Owler's committee wants to make that definition clearer at a fixed point. Well, supposedly clearer because Owler is not telling us where this supposed line in the sand will be drawn; not yet anyway.
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Discrimination of the vilest kind
Feb 24, 2016
by Paul Russell: Since the Canadian Supreme Court overturned the protections in law that prohibited both assisted suicide and euthanasia in February 2015, the nation has been in something of a free fall. With Quebec going its own way to create its own permissive regime, which was suspended and then re-instated by the courts, with no consensus yet on the form of any national legislation to give voice to the will of the courts and with stakeholders both pro and con engaging in a tug of war somewhere on the spectrum between protecting vulnerable people, on the one hand, and open season on the other, euthanasia and assisted suicide will continue to be of great public interest for quite some time to come.
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'do-the-right-thing' Grandma! On rationing Health Services to the elderly:
Aug 20, 2015
In a bizarre statement today (20th August 2015), NT Health Minister, John Elferink openly discussed 'canvassing support for cutting seniors' funding' in health that 'has been coming "at the expense" of children'. He told ABC News that 'the money would be better spent in the first year of a person's life.'"The fact is we've pretty much reached the limit of how old we can grow as a species," he told the ABC after the annual Australasian aeromedical conference in Darwin.
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Territory 'Rights' again - Marshall Perron enters the fray
Dec 03, 2010
This flies in the face of claims that Bob Brown's bill in the Senate is solely about restoring the Territory's rights. Clearly, should Brown's bill be successful, there will be an immediate push for a new euthanasia bill in the NT's single-cameral parliament.In an attempt to defray such criticisms, the
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