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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 […]
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 […]