Newspaper Media
June 15, 2014
Probe on euthanasia campaigner after friends’ suicide pact
The Herald Sun by Shelley Hadfield, 5 June 2014
A police investigation has begun into the deaths of two Melbourne women who obtained suicide devices from controversial euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke. A letter left by one of the women details their suicide pact. One of the pair had Alzheimer’s disease, but the other was healthy. Detectives this week asked Dr Nitschke, known as […]
June 15, 2014
NZ Couple died together
The Dominion Post by Deidre Mussen & Olivia Wannan, 7 June 2014
A couple with long-term links to euthanasia group Exit International have been found dead together in their home in the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne. The bodies of Eneka and Reinier Odinot, aged 89 and 90, were found by a family member at 2pm on Wednesday, police said. They had been members of the Wellington branch […]
April 3, 2014
Philip Nitschke tips a full house at Newcastle Writers Festival
EXIT International director Philip Nitschke will demonstrate emerging techniques that allow the elderly and seriously ill to achieve a peaceful death, at a workshop in Newcastle on Monday. Dr Nitschke said he was expecting an enthusiastic response to the Exit euthanasia workshop following his participation at the Newcastle Writers Festival being held at City Hall […]
March 29, 2014
Do not name visiting speakers, hospital rules
Doctors and nurses at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will be gagged from revealing details of talks by visiting experts amid concerns they could leave themselves open to complaints to the medical regulator. A week after The West Australian revealed a senior Perth doctor had complained to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency about a talk […]
March 14, 2014
Think carefully about your preferences
Dear WA Senate candidates (and a few others interested in politics), apologies for not being able to make it across and join the contest on April 5 – it just didn’t quite work out in the end. However, as a veteran of these intense 24 hour upper house preference negotiation processes in two Victorian upper […]
March 12, 2014
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke to be a candidate in WA’s Senate election re-run
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be one of the many micro-party candidates to stand at the re-run of the Senate election in Western Australia – but not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Dr Nitschke and his Voluntary Euthanasia Party announced they would be running on April 5 to “lead the charge in pushing politicians to […]
