Newspaper Media
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 […]