February 17, 2018
Susan Austen trial: Police bugs recorded Exit meeting at suspect’s home
Police audio bugs recorded a meeting of the Wellington branch of pro-euthanasia group Exit International, a jury has heard. Police had a High Court judge’s permission to bug the phone calls and home of branch chairwoman, Susan Austen. Austen had emphasised confidentiality as the October 2, 2016, meeting had begun. Austen, 67, has pleaded not guilty to […]
February 16, 2018
LAST RITES CALLED FOR HOME OF DOCTOR DEATH
Off The Record, The Adelaide Advertiser
IT has served as a corner store, a house, holiday accommodation and a controversial euthanasia clinic, and now Philip Nitschke’s Gilberton home is on the market. Planning department records show that Nitschke’s wife, Fiona Stewart, purchased the property at 19 Gilbert St, Gilberton, in 2013. “We lived there for a couple of years when I […]
February 13, 2018
High Court trial of euthanasia campaigner Susan Austen gets under way on Monday
Susan Austen has pleaded not guilty to aiding a suicide and importing a drug that can be used for euthanasia. The trial of euthanasia campaigner Susan Austen begins in the High Court at Wellington on Monday. The 66-year-old retired Lower Hutt teacher faces one charge of aiding Annemarie Niesje Treadwell to commit suicide, and two charges of importing pentobarbitone, a […]
February 11, 2018
Qantas Dumps Luggage 150 Passengers in Favour UK Cricket Team Bags
Qantas Dumps Luggage of 150 Passengers at Wellington Airport in Preference to Carrying Bags of Absent British Cricket Team. A Qantas decision to load the luggage of the UK touring cricket team instead of the luggage of paying passengers on flight QF161 from Sydney to Wellington on Sunday has caused chaos for those involved such […]
February 4, 2018
Last Exit to Lismore: People planning Death over Retirement
Marea Donnelly, The Daily Telegraph
After playing “executioner” in Darwin 20 years ago, euthanasia advocate and Exit International founder Philip Nitschke dreams of the day when pensioners can store a death dose of barbiturates alongside their blood pressure medication. This afternoon up to 300 Baby Boomers will join Nitschke at Lismore Workers Club to learn what Australian laws they have […]
January 20, 2018
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke to visit Bundaberg
Bundaberg News Mail, Joe Castro
RIGHT TO DIE: Exit International spokesman Dr Phillip Nitschke will travel to Bundaberg next month for a public meeting and members’ workshop. IT WILL be almost six years to the day next month since Dr Philip Nitschke first visited Bundaberg and his message remains the same. The voluntary euthanasia advocate has chosen Bundaberg as one […]
January 18, 2018
10 Things you didn’t know about Dr Death
ASSISTED dying advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be holding a couple of events in Lismore next month. Here are 10 things you did not know about the Australian euthanasia advocate: 1. He completed a PhD in laser physics in 1972 2. In 1996, Dr Nitschke became the first doctor in the world to administer a […]
January 16, 2018
Euthanasia workshop in Lismore with ‘Dr Death’
Javier Encalada, The Northern Star, Lismore
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be offering an Exit workshop in Lismore next month, the first of five events organised in Australia. Dr Philip Nitschke is an Australian author, and the founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He said he believed the right to die should be recognised as a fundamental […]