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CLA supports a person's rights over his or her mind and body, from birth through death. Competent individuals should have free choice in advance whether they wish to receive treatment, or continuing treatment when no longer competent. A person is free to end his or her own life. These rights should be contained in legislation.
Dying: why not a referendum?
Article posted on Tuesday 03 May 2011Death is certain, but older people observe frailer elders closing on finality in nursing homes and think there should be a better way, and an ultimate choice, without penalty. Former ACT Speaker Greg Cornwell believes it's time for a national referendum.
Backing call for living wills
Article posted on Tuesday 04 January 2011Editor, The Canberra Times.
The call, by Professor Ken Hillman, (3 January 2011) for a national living-will program to uphold the views of people seeking to die with dignity when at the end stage of their life, and endorsed by your editorial (4 January) must be supported by the medical profession if a patient`s choices are to be genuinely respected,
Living will: your right to die
Article posted on Monday 03 January 2011The issue of right to die has hit the front of Australia's metropolitan daily newspapers this silly season, with the Canberra Times featuring a call by Professor Ken Hillman to respect people's wishes. Also featured is the story of CLA member, Adele Stevens.
Inhumane law distresses the dying
Article posted on Thursday 26 March 2009For decades opinion polls have shown that 80% of people would support the decision by Angie Belecciu* to end her life with dignity as she suffered from incurable, painful bone cancer. ("Angie`s choice" The Age 25/3).
Dec 2008 Newsletter - CLA launches anti-filtering campaign
Article posted on Sunday 30 November 2008CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering - censorship - on adult Australians' access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website - http://www.censorfree.com.au/ - and a series of events, activities and media releases to be rolled out over the coming few months.
The government wants to stop children accessing pornography, a move CLA is entirely in agreement with. But the government has backed down on a promise to do so under an 'opt-in', voluntary system for parents, and instead plans to impose mandatory censorship, cutting adult Australians' access to information (and dramatically reducing internet speeds as a by-product).
Euthanasia: equal rights means right to choose
Article posted on Wednesday 26 March 2008The Australian Parliament has a clear responsibility to reinstate the Northern Territory's Euthanasia Act for two inalienable human rights reasons: an individual has the right to choose life, or death, and all Australians are entitled to equal rights through their democratically-elected parliaments, CLA President, Dr Kristine Klugman, says.
Euthanasia choice
Article posted on Tuesday 12 February 2008Freedom for gay couples to celebrate their unions - great. Good luck to the ACT Government in resisting federal intervention in this ("Showdown looks for gay union negotiation", February 8, p3).
Many MPs support 'right to choose death' law
Article posted on Thursday 28 June 2007Many federal parliamentarians, regardless of party, support new laws to give people the right to choose their own death. Here's how Senator Allison of the Democrats puts it.
Nudge, nudge, ban, ban...the Pill is popped
Article posted on Monday 26 February 2007Link: http://www.peacefulpillhandbook.com/
If you want to read The Peaceful Pill Handbook, which provides information on assisted death and voluntary euthanasia, you are now too late. The man who has been unable to get David Hicks freed from Guantanamo Bay in five years, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, moved with the speed of light to get the book banned, says Bill Rowlings of Civil Liberties Australia.
Top panel talks on euthanasia
Article posted on Friday 09 February 2007A top quality panel of Parliamentarians and subject experts met at the ANU in Canberra in late-2006 to discuss euthanasia. West Australian MHR Dr Carmen Lawrence chaired the forum, which featured speakers for an hour, then an hour's lively Q&A sessions.
Ruddock censors euthanasia handbook
Article posted on Wednesday 17 January 2007Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has moved rapidly to demand that the Classification Review Board bans a book on euthanasia, the Peaceful Pill Handbook, even though the board OK'd the book just a month earlier, in December 2006. "This executive government banning sets a new low for censorship in Australia," CLA CEO Bill Rowlings says in a media release.
What are civil libertarians concerned about?
Article posted on Saturday 06 January 2007Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
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