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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

sourcing through TGA's Special Access Scheme
211–13

Netherlands, doctor-assisted suicide
102

New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties
169

New Zealand Medical Registration Board
126

Nicholson, Tim
108

Nicklinson, Tony
207

Nicol, Neal
167
,
180

Nielson, Merin
119–20

Nigot, Lisette
131
,
133–4
,
145
,
157

Nitrogen system
145

Nitschke, Dennis (brother)
9
,
14
,
192

Nitschke, Friedrich William
8

Nitschke, Gailene (sister)
9

Nitschke, Gwen (née Richardson)
9–10
,
47
,
52
,
124

Nitschke, Harold (father)
8
,
9
,
10
,
14
,
45
,
205

Nitschke, Philip

birth
9

collaborative autobiography with Peter Corris
217–18

as a country boy
10–14

family background
8–10

impact of patients' deaths
96

killing of dog
16

love of chemistry and explosives
11–13

persistence
14

Northern Territory

early interest in
33

law-making powers
101

political conservatism
3
,
7
,
55

regional identity
7

Northern Territory Constitution, burning of
104

Northern Territory Department of Health
77
,
78
,
79
,
80

Novak, Errol
23

Nu-Tech
136

Nullagai
(sloop)
73
,
74

Numiari, Pincher
42
,
45

O'Brien, Kerry
92
,
93

Ogden, Russell
186

Ottaway, Richard
177

Outback trek in 2006
196–8

Oxford Union
176–7

Ozanne-Smith, Joan
152–3

Packer, Kerry
96

PayPal, cancelation of Exit's account
163
,
177–8

‘peaceful pill'
131
,
136
,
140
,
141
,
152

Peaceful Pill eHandbook
(Nitschke)
133
,
137
,
171–2
,
180
,
203
,
208

Peaceful Pill Handbook
(Nitschke)

availability of
133

banning of
145
,
162
,
164
,
169–71

burning of copies in front of old Parliament House
170

formal ‘Restricted R18' classification
168–9

launch
136
,
167

legal holdings in Australia
173–4

modifications for New Zealand
171

publication in US
167–8

sales
136–7

seizure of copies by Australian Customs
168

in trial of Jennings and Justins
118

Peaceful Pill online forums
203

‘Peanut Project'
127–9

Penberthy, David
157
,
158

Penong (SA)
9

peripheral neuropathy
62–3

Perron government (NT)
3
,
4
,
5–6
,
81

Perron, Marshall
3
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
86
,
138–9
,
150

Peters, Betty
163

‘The Phil' debating society (Dublin)
188

Philips, Mal
34

physics studies
18
,
24
,
25–7

Pine Gap base, criticism of US presence
41
,
55–6
,
60

Pintupi people
61

Pirate Party
174

PM
(ABC Radio)
77

police raids
151
,
219

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