Newspaper Media
March 5, 2014
Nitschke accused of normalising suicide
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is facing a fresh challenge to his medical registration after a complaint that he told colleagues assisted suicide should be made possible for social reasons, like the inability to play golf. Perth-based pain management specialist Dr Mark Schutze, who lodged the complaint with AHPRA, told MO that during a seminar […]
February 23, 2014
Discussing a good death with Philip Nitschke
I speak at a writers festival about once a year. These festivals are always good fun, inspiring and mind-expanding. Last weekend I participated in a panel discussion at Perth Writers’ Festival on ‘A good death’. A panel of four members was deftly facilitated by Anne Summers, asking ‘What is to be gained if assisted suicide […]
February 21, 2014
Philip Nitschke headlines writers festival
THERE was no “road to Damascus moment” for Philip Nitschke, aka Doctor Death. The thing that motivated Nitschke to speak out about euthanasia for the first time in 1995 was what he describes as the arrogance of another man. That man was Dr Chris Wake, then president of the Northern Territory branch of the Australian […]
January 22, 2014
Philip Nitschke: my airport detention, for reasons unexplained
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke was detained and searched at Melbourne Airport yesterday and not told why. He writes for Crikey about the campaign against him. In its 2010–11 annual report, then-Australian Customs CEO Michael Carmody explained the agency’s approach to conducting business reflected an “increasingly targeted approach”. Directing “our resources on high-risk people… as […]
January 21, 2014
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke detained at Melbourne Airport
Accuses Customs officials of accessing patient records. Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has accused Customs officials of accessing hundreds of patients’ sensitive records on his laptop after detaining him at Melbourne Airport on Tuesday morning. Speaking from a plane about to fly to Los Angeles, Dr Nitschke said he had only just made his flight after […]
December 28, 2013
Euthanasia advocates’ overkill stymies the right-to-die debate
FOR a man on a mission to euthanasia, Philip Nitschke is remarkably pacific. Despite 20 years of failed attempts to legalise euthanasia, including recently rejected bills in South Australia and Tasmania, Nitschke is resolute. His latest broadside is the controversial opening of Australia’s first euthanasia clinic in the sleepy streets of Adelaide. In a broad-ranging […]
