Newspaper Media
September 3, 2014
Euthanasia Advocate Warns of Scam Nembutal Sites
Voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke says scam internet sites are using his image to sell the drug Nembutal. Dr Nitschke said the sites from the US, Eastern Europe and Turkey also include one US site appropriating the name of his organisation Exit. Dr Nitschke said he is powerless to stop the publication other than to […]
August 29, 2014
Townsville GP tells Exit Founder to kill himself
ANTHONY TEMPLETON, Townsville Bulletin, August 18, 2014 9:11PM
A TOWNSVILLE GP has been referred to police after sending a threatening email to euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke suggesting he shoot himself. Police and the Office of the Health Ombudsman were notified by Dr Nitschke after he received the email from Dr Pat Gibney yesterday. The email reads: “Dear Phillip (sic), Please do the […]
August 29, 2014
VEP’s Max Bromson dies surrounded by family
A terminally ill South Australian man who ran for the senate for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party has taken his life in a Glenelg motel room, says campaigner Philip Nitschke. Former businessman Max Bromson was the lead candidate in SA for the VEP, which backs the introduction of voluntary euthanasia laws across the country. In the […]
August 29, 2014
Philip Nitschke’s wife Fiona Stewart steps out
The Saturday Paper, By Ceridwen Dovey, 23 August, 2014
The day before I was meant to meet Fiona Stewart in Sydney, her husband, Philip Nitschke, founder of the Australian pro-euthanasia organisation Exit International, was served papers, and she cancelled her trip to stay in their home town of Darwin. The following week, Nitschke’s medical registration was suspended by the Medical Board of Australia because […]
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 […]
