Peter Corris wishes to thank Jean Bedford and Renee Quinn.
Index
7.30 Report (ABC TV) 92
Abbott, Tony 126
Aboriginal rights, support for 38–9, 43–6, 54, 55
accelerometer inside boxing headgear 71
activist journalism 160
Adams, Phillip 112, 170
advertising, banning of 162, 174, 175
Albanese, Anthony 100
Alcorn, Gay 82, 88, 201
AM (ABC radio) 35
Andrews Act 104, 105, 170, 205
Andrews’ Bill 99, 100, 101–4, 105
Andrews, Kevin 98–9, 101, 110–11
anti-euthanasia blogs and websites 160, 178
Arafura Games 71
Arch-Rowe, Elaine 168
Ardrossan (SA) 9, 11
army reserve 56
Arnold, Peter 78
ASIO file 54
Assange, Julian 184
assisted-suicide
and inheritance 120–1
legal cases 116–22, 135
testing of the law 127, 147
atheism 25
Atheist Ireland 188
Atkinson, Bob 151
Atkinson, Don 37–8, 41
Ausdoc Mobile 80–2, 85
Australian Advertising Standards Bureau 176
Australian Amateur Boxing Association 71
The Australian Book of Atheism 96
Australian Christian Lobby 125, 126, 170
Australian Customs
confiscation of COGen 165–6
Importing Barbiturates: Pentobarbital/Nembutal 211
Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency (AHPRA), inquiries into fitness to practice medicine 126, 127, 159–60, 211
Australian Medical Association (AMA)
opposition to euthanasia 4, 86
personal attacks 149–50
Baddeley, Steve 68–9, 95, 105, 106
Baeyer, Adolf 128
Bankin, Ellis 195–6
Bankin, Frank 195
Banshee (yacht) 73
barbituric acid 128
Baume, Eric 33
Baume, Peter 92
Beadell, Len 61, 62
Beattie government, legal action against 151
Beattie, Peter 146, 150
Beazley, Kim 99, 172
Beckett, Simeon 169
Beech, Kathy 185
Belecciu, Angie 145
Bell, Max 85–8, 160
Bellamy, John 184
Berg, Erin 153–6
Berg, Norman 153–4
billboard campaign 175–6
Biros, Kenneth 209, 210
Blixen, Karen 192
Bodor, Peter 117
Boeing Corporation 27
Bolt, Andrew 157
Bowden, Tom 12
Bowen, Paul 207
boxing 50, 69–71
Brennan, Max 34, 35
Brighthelm Community Church 183, 185
Brinkworth Area School 14
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) 186
British National Party 177
Brown, Bob 100, 103–4
Burke, Tony 100
Buswells Hotel (Dublin) 188
Callihanna, Andrea 176
Canada
Dying with Dignity legal case 186
Exit workshops 186
Canadian Criminal Code 186
Cape Du Couedic field station (Kangaroo Island) 39–41
capital punishment 209–10
carcinoid syndrome 97
Carmody, Kev 38, 194
Carne, Des 60, 89, 109
Carver, - (Professor) 27
child pornography 172, 173
Christian Concern (Ireland) 188
Christian Solidarity Party (Ireland) 187
Chua, Robert 189
Chung, Connie 157
citizen’s arrest, making of 20–2, 144
City Bible Forum 178
Clune, Frank 191, 195
‘COGen’, confiscation by Australian Customs 165–6
Coleman, David (Rev.) 183
collaborative autobiography 217–18
College of Psychiatrists 90
Commonwealth Criminal Code 167
Compass (ABC TV)
censoring of documentary Mademoiselle and the Doctor 166
interview with Scott Stephens 25
Concerned Citizens of Alice Springs 55
Concordia College 14, 16
‘Condolence Books’ 170
Coniston massacre 33–4
Connors, Graeme 69
Conroy, Stephen 172, 173
Corris, Peter 217–20
Court, John 30–1
Crean, Simon 100
Crews, Bill (Rev.) 158
Cribb, Reg 86
Crick, Jimmy 146
Crick, Nancy 127, 145, 146–51
Cripps, Robin 69
Crook, Andrew 158
Cully, Jean 50
Curran, Marie 189
Curran, Tom 188–9
Curtin Springs station 196
Customs Act (Cth), voluntary euthanasia items or information amendment 165–7, 168
Cutler, Trevor 63
Daguragu/Wattie Creek (NT) 39, 41, 113
Dalton, Jean 120
Darken, Bob 54, 55, 194
Darwin Private Hospital 94
Day of Shame protest 170
‘De-breather’ 136
Deane, Sir William 105, 106
death threats 123
defamation action 139–40
Deliverance (Exit’s newsletter) 129, 139
‘Deliverance Machine’ 89, 93, 97, 109, 142, 181, 185, 207
Democratic Labor Party 126
Democrats 167
Dent, Bob 85, 88–92, 93, 94, 101, 130
Dent, Judy 90, 91
Denton, Andrew 90
depressed teenagers 140–2
depression 142
detention, by UK Immigration officials 183–4
Dignified Departures (TV series) 189
Dignitas (Zurich) 115–16, 135, 206, 207
Dignity in Dying (UK) 134, 180–2
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund 187
Do It Yourself with Betty (film) (Hopes) 162–3
doctor-assisted suicide
‘Deliverance Machine’ 89
in the Netherlands 102
Doctors for Change 4–5
Dominguez, James 100
Doogue, Geraldine 166
Doyle sisters 154–5
‘Dr Death’ 93, 187
drug addicts
prescriptions for morphine tablets 80
provision of clean opiates 80, 81–2
drug policy of NT government 81–2
Duckworth, Dick 195–6
Duffy, Michael 173
Duffy, Mike 180
Duncan, George (Dr) 31
Dying with Dignity NSW 139
Dying with Dignity Victoria 140
Eastbourne Riviera Hotel 185
Eby, David 186
Eddington, Paul 93
Edge, John 127–9
education
medical studies 58, 59–61, 65, 66–7
PhD supervisors 33–4
postgraduate studies 7, 27, 28–36
primary schooling 11
secondary schooling 11, 12, 13, 14–16
undergraduate years 18–27
Ellard, John 90
Elliott, John (Dr) 145
Ellis Matthew
man Bankin: Outback Motorcyclist Who Perished: A Biography (Duckworth) 196
Ellison, Chris 165
employment
administrative manager at Wave Hill 42–7, 54
after-hours general medical practice 80–2, 85
army reservist 56
boxing doctor at Arafura Games 71
doctor-in-attendance at boxing matches 69–71
gardener at Wave Hill 38–9, 41–2
holiday employment whilst student 22–3
lighthouse and field station manager 39–41
medical intern 67, 68–9, 75–6
medical photographer 77
medical student on placement 66
park ranger in Northern Territory 51, 53–6
radiation protection officer 77–9
taxi driver 50
tram conductor 48, 50
as voluntary euthanasia activist 108–10, 111, 199–203, 204, 205–6
End of Life Choice Bill (New Zealand) 205–6
Enderby, Kep 128
Enough Rope (ABC TV) 90
Ensemble Theatre 35
euthanasia, definition 3
Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996 (Andrews’ Bill) 99, 100, 101–4, 105
‘Euthanasia No’ campaign 100
Exit bags 162–3, 164–5, 166, 213
Exit International (formerly VERV)
administration 110
advertising 162, 174, 175–6
billboard campaign 175–6
cancellation of account by PayPal 163, 177–8
database 110, 156
Day of Shame protest 170
defamation action 139–40
drug-testing kits 208
‘Exit Choices’ television commercial 175
foundation 107
fundraising 109, 199–200, 201
information workshops in Australia 107–8, 111, 125, 164
information workshops overseas 111, 133, 134, 135, 137, 177, 180, 181, 182–3, 184–90
membership requirements 156
ongoing projects and activities 202–3, 208
as only national voluntary euthanasia member organisation in Australia 138
philosophical stance on voluntary euthanasia 206
response to proposed internet filtering 174
succession planning 204
YouTube videos 163
‘Exit Nembutal Test Kit’ 183, 184–5
explosives 11–13
Facebook campaign 215
Farewell Foundation (Canada) 186
FATE (Friends at the End) (Scotland) 133
Festival of Dangerous Ideas 199
Final Exit (Humphry) 136, 137, 168
Finch, Fred 81
Fitzgerald, Ross 215
Flinders Postgraduate Students’ Association (FPSA) 30
Flinders University
funding policy 34–5
PhD scholarship 27
Flounders, Don 145
Flounders, Iris 145
Flowers, Angelique 109, 145
foot injury and associated legal action 56–7, 59, 63–5
Four Corners (ABC TV)
‘Access Denied’ 174
‘Final Call’ 170
‘The Dying Game’ 106
‘The Road to Nowhere’ 87–8, 160
Frances (SA) 11
Francis, Neal 139, 140
Franklin, Jay 145
‘Free Speech?’ banner 79, 219
Free TV Australia 175
‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’ (song) (Carmody & Kelly) 38, 194
Frommelt, Barry 47
Garrett, Peter 194
Georgiou, Petro 100
Ghan, trip as stow away 67
Giari, Lupna (‘Captain Major’) 38
Gillard government 100
Gillies, Max 218
Ginsberg, Allen 160
Golden, Marilyn 187
Google 163
Gordon, Hayes 35, 41
Greens 6, 167
The Gruen Transfer (ABC TV) 174, 175
Guest, Steve 145
Gunbarrel Highway 62
guns 14, 20–2, 30, 46
Gurindji people 38, 42, 44, 45, 62, 113
Hadley, Roy 156
Hahn, Dirk 8
Hall, Norma 92–3, 145
Hamilton Hall Hotel (Bournemouth) 183, 184
Hardy, Frank 37, 38, 44, 113
Harman, Jay 49
Harold and Maude (film) 191
Harradine, Brian 102
Harvard step test 205
Hastings, Bill 171
Hayes, Len 45
health and fitness 202, 204–5
Heffernan, Bill 123
Heiss, Daniel 75–7
Hemingway, Ernest 215
Henderson, Sarah 131
Henley High (Adelaide) 15, 16
Hickey, Maggie 79
Highways Department 23
Hill, Ernestine 48
Hinch, Derryn 158
Hippocratic Oath 125
Hitler’s speeches from Nuremberg Rallies 31–2
Hofsess, John 136
Hollows, Fred 66, 194
Hollows, Gabi 194
hologram creation 25–7
Home on the Range (documentary) (Scrine) 60
HOPE anti-euthanasia group 159
Hopes, Steve 162
Hosking, Janine 133, 166
How the West was Lost (McLeod) 35
Howard government 98, 99, 165, 169, 170–1
Howard, John 98, 99, 100
Howie, Roderick 118, 121, 122
Huber, Ted 207
Humphry, Derek 136, 168
Humphrys, John 181
hunting 14
hypochondria 29, 62–3, 204
internet, mandatory filtering by ISPs 172–3
internet radio 192
Ireland
Exit workshops 187–8
voluntary euthanasia debate 188–9
Irving, David 177
Irwin, Michael 134, 177
James Hardie factory (Adelaide) 22
Jenning, Caren 115–22, 145
Jenning, Kate 122
Jones, Alan 156
Jones, Barry 103
Jones, Clem 137–40
Jones, Tony 156
journalists, relationship with 156–61
Jupiter Well (Gibson Desert) 61–2
Kamm, Peter 75, 76
Kelly, Paul (journalist) 100
Kelly, Paul (singer/songwriter) 38
Kennerley, Kerri-Anne 158
Kennett government 100
Kennett, Jeff 100
Kevorkian, Jack 88–9, 167
Killing Me Softly (Nitschke & Stewart) 92, 104, 126, 146, 148, 154, 156, 218, 219
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mother and Baby Unit 153, 154
knives 14, 30
Koetsier, Kay 100
Koolunga (SA) 12
Lange, Phillip 12, 13, 14
Lanhupuy, Wes 6, 103
Last Cab to Darwin (play) (Cribb & Sims) 86
Late Night Live (Radio National), ‘There’s no such thing as a new idea’ debate 111–12
Laurie, Victoria 154
Laws, John 158
Lee, John 177
leprosy 62–3
Lickiss, Norelle 4
Light of Christ Covenants Community (NZ) 187
Lillecrap, Doug 198
Lindsay, Norman 168
Lingiari, Vincent 37, 42, 47
‘A Little Further North’ (song) (Connors) 69
‘locked in’ syndrome
207
Lonzer, George 39
Lopez, Kathryn Jean 140–1
Lutheranism 14–15
Lynda Vale station 195
Lyons, Enid 98
Lyons Forum 98
McCann, Corey 210
McDermott, Quentin 174
Mackenzie, Robin 180
McLaughlin, Murray 87, 92–3, 106, 160, 184
McLeod, Don 35–6, 41
Macmillan, Kevin 174–5
McQueen, Peter 63–4
Mademoiselle and the Doctor (documentary) (Hosking) 133, 166
Maklin, Jenny 100
Manning, Brian 44
Manzie, Daryl 159
Marcuse, Herbert 30
Margaret (girlfriend) 18–19
Martens, Evelyn 164
Max Dog Brewing nitrogen cylinders 145, 160, 213–14
Medew, Julia 151–2
media
anti-euthanasia internet campaign 160
coverage of detention at Heathrow 184–5
coverage of Nancy Crick’s death 146–51
coverage of voluntary euthanasia 145–6
harnessing on behalf of voluntary euthanasia 144, 146, 161, 180, 200–1
personal attacks 145, 148–50, 158
refusal to publish right-of-reply 153–6
relationship with journalists 156–61
report on killing of dog 16
report on making citizen’s arrest 21, 144
social media 159
supportive treatment 158–9
treatment by Murdoch press 151–3
Media Watch (ABC TV) 166
Medical Association for the Prevention of War 77
Medical Device Regulations 212
medical registration, inquiries into fitness to practice medicine 125–6, 159–60, 211–15
medicine, interest in 24, 58
memorial ceremony for Ellis Bankin 195–6
‘Mercitron’ 89
Message Stick (ABC TV) 194
Michael, David 183
Mills, Dave 93–5
Mills, Janet 93–5
Mitchell, Neil 157
model aeroplanes 13–14
MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) 97
Moorhouse, Frank 169
Morton, Cole 184
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) 211–12
motorbikes 192–3, 194, 195–8
Motorcycle News (magazine) 196
Mudge, Trevor 149
Murdoch, Rupert 151
Murray Bridge (SA) 18–19
mycosis fungoides 93, 94, 95
national euthanasia movement, attempt to organise 99–100, 107
National Library, underground storage vaults 173–4
Neals, Rob 136
Nembutal
attempt to produce by Peanut Project 127–9
China as source 208
deaths from overdose 109, 116, 119, 122, 152
difficulty of acquiring 152
Indonesia as source 179
Mexico as source 116, 118, 119, 134, 137, 152, 154, 179, 180
right of access to 130, 209
Damned if I Do Page 22