SAVES is not affiliated with Exit International / Dr Philip Nitschke and opposes the public availability of a 'peaceful pill'.

National/International News and Events

• Debate must not be stifled - Open dialogue with Palliative Care Australia is essential
• Censorship again - Federal Government bans book
• Voluntary euthanasia activist denied humanitarian award - Panel's choice overridden by Mayor
• Senator Vanstone supports voluntary euthanasia: Speech on 10th anniversary of NT Act
• Experience of dying - patient and carer concerns: Australian research reveals patients' views on shortening life
• Nancy Crick's Death - Australian VE Societies' joint press release
• World Federation supports Nancy Crick
• Medical support for voluntary euthanasia
• More on the Alleged Netherlands "Slippery Slope"
• Palliative Care - Australian 1999 Position Statement on Euthanasia
• Tasmanian Report (1998) - on the Legalisation of Voluntary Euthanasia
• Reaction to a Study of End-of-Life Medical Decisions in Australia. - Peter Baume and Helga Kuhse comment on the reaction to their study.
• The Death of Compassion - Overturning the NT's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995.
• Medical Decisions at the End of Life in Australia and the Netherlands - A comparison based on studies in the Netherlands in 1990 and 1995, and in Australia in 1995/6.
• The Limits of Palliative Care - In support of the NT Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
• Simply a Matter of Choice - Marshall Perron on the NT Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
• Regarding Euthanasia - A Christian supports the NT Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
• A Sad Day for Democracy in Australia - The NT Rights of the terminally Ill Act overturned.
• A Challenge to the Australian Medical Association - In regard to the AMA's support for the Andrews' Bill which aims to overturn the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
• The Melbourne Declaration - By doctors attending the 11th International Conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies at Melbourne (15-18 Oct 1996).
• Making a Submission to the Select Committee on Anne Levy's VE Bill
• Settle the Question Right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox's verses provide fitting comment on the demise of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminaly Ill Act.
• Has Anything Changed? - Twenty years after Max Ferber wrote "I Cried, but not for Irma".
• Managed Death Replacing Assisted Suicide in the US - Its the same in Australia.
• Two Questions - as included in the Kuhse/Singer survey.
• Philip Nitschke - Valiant Campaigner - Election result.
• Reader's Digest Article - Journalism at its worst.
• The Darwin Experience of Voluntary Euthanasia - Lessons to be learnt.
• France Discovers Euthanasia
• Kevorkian - Events leading to his trial in March 99.
• Proposal B fails in Michigan
• Tasmanian Report on the Legalisation of VE - one page comment with link to more detail
• Concern over pain relief in the NT - Andrew's Bill disadvantages the Territories
• World Conference on Assisted Dying - Boston 2000 highlights
• Prominent New Zealand activist dies - Futile suffering at an end
• Strength and Solidarity in Sydney - the EXIT Australia conference
• 'Medication' not 'palliation - Court determination on PEG feeding
• Recent end-of-life surveys - Information from professional journals
• The Limits of Palliative Care
• Depression and the Wish for Death in the Terminally Ill - A psychiatrist explains ...
• A Death in Darwin - The psychiatrist who certified that Bob Dent was not suffering from a treatable clinical depression reflects.
• A Tale of Two Deaths
• Medical Decisions at the End of Life in Australia and the Netherlands
• Out of Control in the Netherlands? - publications in the Journal of Medical Ethics
• The Dutch Government Policy on Euthanasia
• Reaction to a Study of End-of-Life Medical Decisions in Australia.
• The Death of Compassion
• Voting on the Andrews Bill - How our Federal Politicians Voted.
• Voluntary Euthanasia Advisory Clinics
• Out of Control in the Netherlands?
• The Dutch Government Policy on Euthanasia
• More on the Alleged Netherlands "Slippery Slope"
• Palliative Care - Australian 1999 Position Statement on Euthanasia
• Tasmanian Report (1998)
• Dying in Australia by refusing food and fluids 
• World Euthanasia Conference 2002 in Brussells
• Voluntary Euthanasia in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium - a comparative study
• World Federation supports Nancy Crick
• Medical support for voluntary euthanasia
• 2002 Morgan Poll
• Belgium Legalises Voluntary Euthanasia
• Council of Europe calls on European states to consider decriminalising voluntary euthanasia
• Growing international choices in dying : Report from the World Federation of Right to Die Societies
• Palliative care and end of life surveys
• BMA adopts neutral stance