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Bipolar disorder, with its dramatic mood swings, is particularly difficult to live with but many of those who do have found a way through. Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars [...]

On 22 December 2014 the Northern Territory Health Professional Review Tribunal five member panel unanimously agreed to uphold the decision of the Immediate Action Committee of the Medical Board [...]

It is official. Like Belgium, The Netherlands has completely lost any sense of respect for the law and has leapt, lemming-like, off the moral cliff. Dutch news is reporting on the euthanasia [...]

On Thursday, 10th April 2014 the Hon Nick Goiran (South Metropolitan Region) addressed the members of the Western Australian Legislative Council. Below is a slightly edited version of his speech. [...]

“Tasmania’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2013 sounds like a compassionate idea—until you read the fine print,” says FamilyVoice Tasmania state officer Jim Collins. “As someone else has said, [...]

There was a moment during the last national debate on euthanasia that deserves to be revisited by a new generation of legislators, a moment that crystallised fears that the so-called right to die [...]

In October 1996 the novelist Thomas Keneally told the BBC that Pauline Hanson had put Australia on the train to Auschwitz.* You would, paraphrasing George Orwell, have to be an intellectual to [...]

In the last two editions of Life News, we warned our readers about Robin Chapple’s dangerous Voluntary Euthanasia Bill 2010. We warned that the Bill would permit any medical practitioner to give [...]

Various polls have indicated an increase in support for the Greens. The Greens themselves are claiming that they are the wave of the future, with voters growing tired of the major parties. [...]

On 20th May 2010 Greens MLC the Hon Robin Chapple introduced his Voluntary Euthanasia Bill 2010 in the Western Australian Legislative Council. When the president of the council asked if the bill [...]