Newspaper Media
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 […]
January 21, 2015
Nitschke Target of Identity Theft
Flynn Murphy, The Medical Observer
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke has fallen victim to a Nembutal scam that he says makes him look like an “international criminal”. The organisation Dr Nitschke founded, Exit International, this week issued a scam alert for a Facebook page called ‘Buy Nembutal Pentobarbital’, which uses the prominent advocate’s image, and claims to ship Nembutal in […]
January 12, 2015
Former Whitlam AG Kep Enderby Dies at 88
KEP ENDERBY 1926-2015 Kep Enderby, QC, barrister, civil libertarian, politician and judge, is best known for his role as federal Attorney-General in 1975, advising the prime minister Gough Whitlam at the time of the Dismissal. After succeeding Lionel Murphy as Attorney-General in early 1975, Enderby was in the vortex of giving advice on the constitutional […]
January 12, 2015
Nitschke Fight Steps Up to Lift Medical Ban
Brad Crouch, The Adelaide Advertiser
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke will appeal to the Supreme Court after the Medical Tribunal of the Northern Territory dismissed his appeal against suspension of his registration. Dr Nitschke said he was disappointed but not surprised by the tribunal’s decision. In July the Medical Board of South Australia used its emergency powers to immediately suspend Dr […]
January 11, 2015
Philip Nitschke Heads to Supreme Court
The voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke will take the Australian medical tribunal to the supreme court after it upheld the suspension of his medical licence. The move comes after the suicide of a depressed but otherwise healthy man with whom Nitschke had been corresponding. In findings made shortly before Christmas, the Northern Territory health professional […]
December 4, 2014
AMA NT Again Postpones Nitschke Suspension Meeting
RIGHT-to-die doctor Philip Nitschke says a meeting to expel him from the Australian Medical Association NT branch is nothing but a late-notice kangaroo court. His opponent, AMA NT boss Dr Robert Parker, says the controversial doc is only playing more games. In the latest stoush between Dr Nitschke and medical authority, the AMA NT will […]