AUSTRALIA

Australia’s legislative laboratory for euthanasia

Michael Cook | 01 September 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia

After Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland?

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Victoria issues first assisted suicide permit

Michael Cook | 28 July 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, victoria

Identity of patient kept secret

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‘Tsunami’ of elderly and euthanasia are not a good mix, say Queensland doctors

Michael Cook | 06 July 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, queensland

The possibility increases pressure to take up the option

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Sperm donors can be parents, says Australia’s High Court

Michael Cook | 22 June 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, sperm donors

Some men will be shocked by decision

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Fertility tourism: Australians travelling to US to have ‘designer babies’

Patrick Foong | 08 June 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, designer babies, ivf

It could become legal in Australia within a few years

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Social risk for donor-conceived after Australian man fathers 48

Xavier Symons | 07 April 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, donor conception, incest

Experts are calling for stronger regulation of donor conception.

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Australian doctors in firing line in stoush over asylum-seekers

Michael Cook | 17 February 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, refugees

New law gives medicos a pivotal role

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The brave new world of human genome editing: an Australian perspective

Patrick Foong | 04 February 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, gene editing

Australian law needs to catch up with scientific developments

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Pill testing under debate in Australia

Xavier Symons | 02 February 2019 | Comments

tags: australia, drugs, law, pill testing

A number of deaths at festivals has sparked a policy debate.

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Class action suit against leading Australian cosmetic surgery company

Michael Cook | 08 December 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, cosmetic surgery

Accused of a ‘cookie-cutter approach to surgery’

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Architects of Victoria’s right-to-die law publish ‘manual’ on how to push legislation through

Michael Cook | 01 December 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, victoria

A Ministerial Advisory Panel reviews its success

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Australian assisted suicide a world first

Michael Cook | 11 November 2018 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, australia

A pastor coerced his wife into committing suicide for the life insurance

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Queensland decriminalises abortion

Michael Cook | 21 October 2018 | Comments

tags: abortion, australia, conscientious objection, queensland

Bill passes easily, 51 to 41.

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Australian man convicted of counselling his wife to suicide

Xavier Symons | 05 October 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, law, suicide

The man stood to gain A$1.4 million in life insurance.

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Woman can use sperm donor without husband’s consent

Michael Cook | 21 September 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, ivf

A judge overturns a section of legislation in the Australian state of Victoria

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Australian Senate votes down euthanasia bill

Xavier Symons | 18 August 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, law, slippery slope

Australia's senate has rejected a bill that would have allowed territories to legalise PAS.

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Should doctors’ social media profiles be scrutinised?

Xavier Symons | 18 August 2018 | Comments

tags: australia, free speech, professional conduct, professional ethics

The Medical Board of Australia has proposed controversial changes to its Code of Conduct.

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104-year-old Australian scientist boards plane for Swiss suicide clinic

Michael Cook | 06 May 2018 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, australia, philip nitschke

Supported by Nitschke’s Exit International

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This is what happens when no one says No to a patient with anorexia nervosa

Michael Cook | 02 December 2017 | Comments

tags: anorexia nervosa, australia, eating disorders

The appalling story of an Australian woman who binged on laxatives

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Victoria one step away from legalising euthanasia

Michael Cook | 24 November 2017 | Comments

tags: australia, euthanasia, victoria

“Today’s all about emotion, and it’s all about compassion,” says the state's Premier

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