Newspaper Media
April 28, 2015
Gail O’Rorke found “not guilty” of assisted suicide
Gail O’Rorke has been acquitted at the Circuit Criminal Court of helping her friend take her own life. Ms O’Rorke was found not guilty of attempting to aid Bernadette Forde (51) in travelling to the Dignitas euthanasia centre in Switzerland between March and April, 2011. There were loud screams from her family in the body […]
April 16, 2015
Australia’s Dr Death Fears Arrest in Britain
Sydney Morning Herald, Julia Medew
Australia’s “Dr Death”, Philip Nitschke, fears he could be arrested by British police when he attends an interview about his euthanasia advocacy work in the UK on Thursday. Dr Nitschke said London’s Metropolitan Police had requested a cautioned interview with him this week and that his lawyers had warned him of a “small but nevertheless […]
March 24, 2015
Member’s Death Prompts Vic Police to Suspect Assisted Suicide
Julia Medew, The Age & Sydney Morning Herald
Dorothy Hookey thought she had everything in place. The 86-year-old had enrolled her husband Graham into cooking classes to make sure he could look after himself when she was gone. She had emptied the house of useless objects for the local op shop to benefit. And she had obtained her “insurance” – a lethal drug […]
March 21, 2015
Dying New Zealand Lawyer, Lecretia Seales, Speaks Out
Evidence of a meticulous intellect at work sits in high stacks of convoluted documents in the Wellington office of Lecretia Seales. Every day, she makes her way from the Karori home she shares with her husband, Matt, to her 19th-floor Featherston St workplace to devote another fraction of her precious remaining time to one of […]
March 8, 2015
Sudden death of lawyer threatens to derail Philip Nitschke’s resurrection
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke’s campaign to win back his registration to practise medicine is in disarray following the sudden death of his pro bono counsel and fellow activist Peter Nugent. In an email to Fairfax Media, Mr Nitschke said that Mr Nugent had been suffering stage four cancer, and “was well prepared, and had options […]
March 5, 2015
RIP – Peter Nugent
Julie-Anne Davies, The Sunday Age
Exit’s brilliant barrister, Mr Peter Nugent, died at his home in Melbourne on Saturday 1 March 2015. His funeral will be held week commencing 9 March in Melbourne. Details will be published in The Age newspaper on Saturday 7 March. Exit sends our love and thoughts to his family: Bridgit, Caillin and Deb. Words cannot […]