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January 12, 2015
Former Whitlam AG Kep Enderby Dies at 88
KEP ENDERBY 1926-2015 Kep Enderby, QC, barrister, civil libertarian, politician and judge, is best known for his role as federal Attorney-General in 1975, advising the prime minister Gough Whitlam at the time of the Dismissal. After succeeding Lionel Murphy as Attorney-General in early 1975, Enderby was in the vortex of giving advice on the constitutional […]
January 12, 2015
Nitschke Fight Steps Up to Lift Medical Ban
Brad Crouch, The Adelaide Advertiser
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke will appeal to the Supreme Court after the Medical Tribunal of the Northern Territory dismissed his appeal against suspension of his registration. Dr Nitschke said he was disappointed but not surprised by the tribunal’s decision. In July the Medical Board of South Australia used its emergency powers to immediately suspend Dr […]
January 11, 2015
Philip Nitschke Heads to Supreme Court
The voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke will take the Australian medical tribunal to the supreme court after it upheld the suspension of his medical licence. The move comes after the suicide of a depressed but otherwise healthy man with whom Nitschke had been corresponding. In findings made shortly before Christmas, the Northern Territory health professional […]
December 4, 2014
AMA NT Again Postpones Nitschke Suspension Meeting
RIGHT-to-die doctor Philip Nitschke says a meeting to expel him from the Australian Medical Association NT branch is nothing but a late-notice kangaroo court. His opponent, AMA NT boss Dr Robert Parker, says the controversial doc is only playing more games. In the latest stoush between Dr Nitschke and medical authority, the AMA NT will […]
December 4, 2014
I helped my best friend die: Lesley Basset is the face of Exit UK
Lesley Bassett, the face of the first UK chapter of Exit, a euthanasia group that campaigns for legal suicide, on why her best friend’s death and her role in it changed the course of her life. Lesley Bassett is nervous, but hiding it behind a welcoming smile. It’s a wet Saturday morning in October, and […]
November 18, 2014
A Clinical Jarring Decision on Rational Suicide
Can a person’s legal right to take their own life ever be a rational decision to the point that doctors are actually obligated to make no intervention? Should that decision – even if made by a person suffering no terminal illness – then be assisted? These almost philosophical questions dominated a three-day medical tribunal hearing […]