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  • ACT government plan to outlaw conscience

    The ACT government intent to introduce penalties for health care workers who conscientiously object to administering a poison for the purpose of assisting a patient to suicide or who fail to provide information about how to access assisted suicide, even when done so on religious grounds, has met with resistance from faith leaders. Canberra and… Read More

  • New voices double down on shoddy evidence base for affirmative gender therapy

    Two experienced psychiatrists, George Halasz and Andrew Amos, have further amplified the voices of thirty-six psychiatrists, psychologists, and doctors questioning the ‘validity and reliability’ of any evidence in support of affirmative care. Halasz and Amos add to a growing number of medical professionals who perceive that ‘affirmative’ therapeutic interventions are based more on a political… Read More

  • Growing unrest with ‘affirmative therapy’ in gender-diverse health services underscores need for inquiry

    Thirty-six psychiatrists, psychologists, and doctors have signed an open letter to NSW MPs questioning the ‘validity and reliability’ of the evidence given to support the NSW government’s framework for gender-diverse health services. The letter addressed ‘serious professional concerns’ with the government framework, outlining their professional opinion that the affirmative model of care could cause “unnecessary irreversible harm” to… Read More

  • ‘Inheritance Impatience’ may soon be the driver of fatal elder abuse

    A recent article published in the Sydney Morning Herald cites ‘inheritance impatience’ as a significant driver for increasing elder abuse. The NSW Ageing and Disability Commission reported that between 2022-23 there have been 14,025 calls to the elder abuse hotline. When explaining the 12 per cent increase at budget estimates, NSW Ageing and Disability Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald attributed the… Read More

  • NSW Government’s slash to palliative care funding ignores community voice

    Last month, after his NDIS funding was abruptly cut, forcing him to leave his assisted living facility, James “Jim” Mills opted to end his life using voluntary assisted dying (VAD) services. His family and friends are now urging the government to offer better palliative care support so that no one else is forced to make this… Read More

  • Women’s spaces threatened by proposed NSW sex self-ID laws

    A report that the Minns Government is considering amending the NSW Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration (BDMR) Act to allow anyone to register a legal change of sex based on their self-nomination is of great concern to women’s groups fighting to protect their hard-earned spaces. NSW State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), Joshua Rowe, said,… Read More

  • NSW tax-payer dollars shifted from supporting life to initiating death

    The new Minns Government has silently slashed funding for palliative care while bolstering funds for assisted suicide.  In a move that has shocked palliative care advocates, the NSW Government has quietly withdrawn $150 million of funding for end-of-life patients to receive palliative care and redirected the majority of these tax-payer dollars to support their implementation of… Read More