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  1. Push continues for voluntary euthanasia law in NSW

    Democracy Healthcare Jim McIlroy Coral Wynter Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 Dying With ... Australia and supporters of the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill have pressed the case outside the NSW ... Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill passes NSW lower house Voluntary assisted dying advocates continue the push ...

  2. A 鈥榗ompleted life鈥 deserves a dignified ending

    Books & music Healthcare Suzanne James voluntary assisted dying legislation book reviews ... voluntary assisted dying campaigner Dr Rodney Syme passed away from a stroke in 2021 aged 86, he had ... was a renowned surgeon and researcher who began advocating for voluntary assisted dying after treating ...

  3. Greens Senator David Shoebridge: Territory rights 鈥榓 matter of principle鈥

    Democracy Suzanne James voluntary assisted dying bill Dying with Dignity A bill seeking to give ... the ACT and Northern Territory rights to legislate their own laws, including voluntary assisted dying ... remain concerned also and are urging supporters of voluntary assisted dying to contact Senators to again ...

  4. Democracy wins over theocracy as Territory rights law finally passes

    Democracy Suzanne James voluntary assisted dying legislation territory rights After a 25-year war ... territories to pass voluntary assisted dying laws. Right up to the last minute, the shrinking band of ... states having now passed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws after sustained public demand. Shayne ...

  5. Hostile MPs launch desperate last-minute attempt to delay NSW VAD bill

    Democracy Healthcare Suzanne James Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 Gadigal Country/Sydney The ... NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 was due to go to a lower house vote in NSW Parliament on ... news that opponents of the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill in the NSW Parliament have tabled over ...

  6. VAD becomes legal in NSW, but Telehealth ban bites

    public demand, Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) became a legal end-of-life option in New South Wales聽from ... looks. Australia December 4, 2023 1396 Voluntary assisted dying campaigners outside the NSW parliament in ... being able to pass voluntary assisted dying laws Analysis ...

  7. Is assisted suicide a dangerous idea?

    the term 鈥assisted suicide鈥, rather than 鈥渆uthanasia鈥 or 鈥voluntary euthanasia鈥. And with good reason. ... at government Those arguing for the Right to Die say that assisted suicide needs to be sanctioned by ... central to some political parties. The Greens have an assisted suicide campaign, Dying With Dignity, which ...

  8. Voluntary euthanasia and the hypocrisy of the religious right

    assist their terminally ill loved ones to die, they face harsh penalties. Whilst the person's ... Phil Shannon Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill By Philip ... Andrews, which overturned the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia legislation in 1997. Dr. ...

  9. 'We have the right to die'

    Vincent Phelan Ten years ago, Australia led the world in voluntary euthanasia legislation. On ... September 22, 1996, Bob Dent became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, voluntary ... a physician-assisted death. "It's an abomination", writes Nancy Pullman, "that anyone has to go ...

  10. SUDAN: Western powers allow thousands to die every day

    Sudan, Western governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die every single day ... adequate assistance to save their lives. Of the $195 million it needs for relief operations in Darfur this ... "influence and instruct them to cease their activities", allow the "voluntary return of IDPs", ...

  11. Blog: The COVID-19 crisis in Europe

    Martin Landray, one of the lead researchers, at a briefing. Patients receiving hydroxychloroquine died at ... days in the hospital, 26 percent died on hydroxychloroquine, while 24 percent in the control group ... died, a statistically equal result. There was no evidence the drug shortened hospital stays or otherwise ...

  12. NSW Coalition and Labor ram through anti-protest laws

    contrast to its foot-dragging approach to the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill currently before parliament. ...

  13. NSW Greens MP challenges 鈥榠n good faith鈥 discrimination

    toxic discussion around racism, equal marriage, safe schools, chaplaincy funding, voluntary assisted ... dying and abortion, PHON got what it wanted. The NSW government established a Joint Select Committee ...

  14. Morrison gov鈥檛 pushes on religious discrimination bill

    proposed legislation has the potential to adversely impact all of us. 聽As with voluntary assisted ... dying,聽equal marriage,聽contraception and abortion rights聽 鈥 all consistently supported by majorities 鈥斅 ...

  15. National Day of Shame

    voluntary euthanasia law, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (ROTI). On September 22, 1996, terminally ill ... Darwin man Bob Dent became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, voluntary injection. ... on the ROTI act, terminally ill people in Australia lost their ability to seek medical assistance to ...

  16. Rules on refugee services criticised

    the Refugee Claimants Support Centre and Amnesty International, drew up recommendations for assisting ... that all people should have the access to jobs. The government is permitting refugees to die, not to ... voluntary work. He said he now had to beg for clothes and food. The seminar's 14 recommendations will ...

  17. Cambodian activists attending Climate Change/Social Change conference

    grassroots movements, workers and women activists in Cambodia by providing technical assistance and advocacy ... assistance for social, economic and political change.聽 Sao Sopheap Sao Sopheap began working at Womyn鈥檚 ... when the WAC was phased out. In 2010, Sopheap worked as a technical assistant to support The Messenger ...

  18. Selective conscience

    permitting voluntary euthanasia. Indications are that the Andrews bill, which passed the House of ... Territory act allows terminally ill individuals to receive assistance in voluntarily ending their own lives. ... the sanctity of life on Bougainville, where upwards of 10,000 people have died involuntarily, at least ...

  19. CUBA: Bush intensifies 'regime change' measures

    presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, headed by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. The ... "voluntary" personnel from third countries to travel to Cuba and offer aid to the mercenaries in its service ... that country die, young people driven by unemployment to enlist in the military to be sent to any ...

  20. Australia betrays East Timor refugees

    the camp for a "voluntary" flight home on February 22. Three hundred local Timorese and ... to provide sanctuary only for staff from the United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor, plus ... assurances that it is now safe." This was described as a "voluntary" return. However, Timorese ...

  21. Tas Bull (1932-2003)

    life of former Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) general secretary Tas Bull, who died on May 29. ... before Healy died in July 1961. The WWF elections to replace Healy saw Bull participate in the failed ... the nationalisation of the stevedoring industry. Bull was elected WWF assistant general secretary in ...

  22. A new life in Loma Chata

    cooperative basis. As part of the peace accords, the government agreed to assist cooperatives buy land. ... cough cures and a campesino self-help health manual. Blanca's mother Maria assists with home ... January, 17 died and 2000 suffered from the disease. Easter week two died and 371 cases were reported. Loma ...

  23. Deaths in custody: steps toward a solution

    hit the newspapers. We are angry that CDBR has set itself up to assist the families of those who died ... support, through voluntary work. The families are treated with disrespect and continue to have their rights ... in custody and yet the government does not assist us to give them support. Over five months ago we ...

  24. Kurds mobilise to fight Islamic State

    any outside humanitarian aid and on a completely voluntary basis.鈥 The PYD has its critics. One ... refuge on stony barren Mount Shengal to the north. Hundreds have since died of thirst, starvation and ... being established. US assistance The Kurds desperately need better and heavier weapons to counter the IS ...

  25. Justice for the kanakas: Australia鈥檚 鈥榠nvisible鈥 Melanesians

    early 1900s: recruiting became a voluntary affair. 鈥淭he change came not from any substantial alteration ... influenza epidemic of 1919, which killed many prominent Islanders. An astounding 30% of kanakas died in ... six of whom had died in the previous 13 months. Equal treatment Since the 1973 Trans-Tasman ...

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