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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 […]
December 9, 2013
Philip Nitschke calls for Sydney euthanasia clinic
I very much believe in the freedom of the individual. That is, we have a right, an absolutely fundamental right to determine our own destiny. Now of course that does not mean we trample on the rights of others but essentially we should be able to live our lives the way we want to. I […]
November 27, 2013
Euthanasia: Hope you never need it, but be glad the option is there
The time was always going to come when society would need to face the pointy end of the voluntary euthanasia debate: Those hard cases that would challenge most people’s support for the issue, the cases and circumstances which constitute never-before trodden ground. While in most Western countries polls repeatedly show strong community support for a […]
November 25, 2013
Why Adelaide is my euthanasia clinic HQ (despite Bernardi)
I knew that as soon as I mentioned the words “euthanasia clinic” some stakeholders in this emotive debate would have apoplexy. Sure enough, Armageddon is now on the horizon. At least that is how some portray the future as it relates to the quiet, leafy, inner-city suburb of Walkerville in Adelaide. When my wife and […]
November 20, 2013
Council investigates Nitschke’s euthanasia clinic
Walkerville deputy mayor Carolyn Wigg briefed council last night at its regular monthly meeting, advising councillors that “while Nitschke has moved in, nothing’s happened yet”. Wigg said Council had not received any application to run a medical clinic. Councillors were told last night that an investigation will take place in accordance with its Development Enforcement […]