A couple of decades ago, I was working at The Australian and wrote a piece arguing in favour of voluntary euthanasia. People should have the right to decide when to end their life, I argued,... Read more
The Health Wrap from the Sax Institute communications team takes a look at the media coverage of three of the top public health stories that have been making headlines over the past fortnigh... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: It’s time for palliative care specialists and services to grapple with the reality of voluntary euthanasia and to consider what they would do when a terminally... Read more
Implications of the likely introduction of voluntary euthanasia in Australia will be a focus at the biennial Australian Palliative Care Conference in Adelaide this week. Victoria looks on tr... Read more
On the same day that South Australian legislators voted narrowly against voluntary euthanasia, Professor Fran Baum was contemplating how such legislation would have helped her late mother, N... Read more
Concerns about the safety and quality of cosmetic surgery were highlighted at the 12th International Medical Regulation Conference in Melbourne last week. Another issue flagged during a sess... Read more
The Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into End of Life Choices, which handed down its report recently, made a number of important recommendations for promoting advance care planning, implementi... Read more
The only thing surer than death and taxes is attacks on death. UNSW sociology’s Alex Broom and Emma Kirby survey the polemics and platitudes of the assisted dying debate. *************... Read more
As recently previewed at Croakey, a public forum in Melbourne this week highlighted some critical questions about the public health challenges facing Victoria. Marie McInerney was there to p... Read more
While the controversial topic of euthanasia chews up the headlines and airtime, far less attention is paid to the important role of professional and community networks in caring for people a... Read more
