July 22, 2010: In June 2010 Justice Kouralis of the South Australian Supreme Court made a judicial decision handing down a landmark in the development of end-of-life discussions: he reconfirmed the right of a competent person to refuse medical treatment and to refuse food and fluid. He indicated that carers not only must abide by such decision, but do have a duty to provide oral hygiene to palliate pain and discomfort in such cases.

July 20, 2010: Attorney General Lara Giddings of Tasmania announced earlier this month a number of plans for (progressive) law reform in the next four year period of Labour-Green Government. These plans included a private members bill for legalization of euthanasia to be brought to Parliament late next year.

/ / July 19, 2010: In June an Australian paper (www.theage.com) reported about the findings of a Belgian survey on the role of nurses in physician assisted deaths in Belgium. By using the wrong words they suggested a huge misbehaviour of Belgian doctors and nurses: 50% of all euthanasia-cases were non-voluntary, and 20% of all nurses had been involved in non-voluntary euthanasia cases.

  February 18, 2010:  The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society accepted for publication in 2010 the article "Techniques to pass on: technology and euthanasia"  by Australian professor of Social Sciences Brian Martin.  Martin examined  a number of possible future paths three) for the development of euthanasia, focussing on the Australian State versus EXIT International situation. 

November 11,  2009:The November 2009 edition of DWDNSW Newsletter is released and can be seen by clicking here.

November 4, 2009: The DWDV Spring edition of Update is released with news on developments in Voictoria, Australia a

September 23, 2009: Rodney Syme (DWD Victoria, Australia) analysed three recent (August 2009) legal decisions in Australia that are of more widespread interest.

You can download his analysis by clicking here

His conclusions after the analysis were:

August 13, 2009:  In September 2008 Rodney Syme was invited to address the Sydney Law School Seminar as a keynote speaker.

Please click here to view the DWDV Newsletter in English.

Dying With Dignity Victoria (DWDV) will hold the annual Steve Guest Day Rally on the steps of Parliament House Victoria on Wednesday, April 16th at 1-2 p.m.