​Articles, Statements and Videos

 

Letter to Prime Minister regarding Religious Freedom and Victorian VAD Act 2017

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Former AMA Presidents Reject Euthanasia laws

 

Professor Kissane's Testimony to the Inquiry

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Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network:

Statement against laws for deliberate ending of life

(Published August 2nd 2017)

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NZ Parliamentary Report

on Attitudes to Medically-Assisted Dying  (Tabled August 2nd 2017)

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Summary of NZ Report

(80% of 21,000 submissions oppose euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.)

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Watch the Tropfest Short Film Winner for 2017:        

The Mother Situation:

(Only 7 minutes with very insightful black humour about the issue of Euthanasia.)

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Notre Dame University's QandA Panel Discussion on Euthanasia 

December 2016: Panelists: Dr Natasha Michael, Prof Margaret Somerville, Prof Paul Komersaroff and Assoc Prof Justin Oakley. 

 

(For more  NDU Q and A Panel discussions on other subjects click here.)

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The Great Euthansia Debate:

Archbishop Anthony Fisher vs Prof Peter Singer - Sydney University, August 2015.

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The Victorian Euthanasia Timetable

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• 7 May 2015: Victorian Inquiry into End of Life Choices began.

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• 9 June 2016: Final Report of Inquiry tabled in Parliament.

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• 9 December 2016: Government responded to recommendations by saying they would  introduce a so called "Assisted Dying Bill" into Parliament in the second half of 2017.

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• January 2017: The Ministerial Advisory Panel published a Discussion Paper.

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• May 2017: The Ministerial Advisory Panel published an Interim Report.

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• July 2017: The Ministerial Advisory Panel published its Final Report.

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• September 2017: The Bill is introduced into Parliament.

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