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Who Decides If We Die in Extreme Suffering? Who are we Melbourne Parliamentarians Retirement Village Electorate Member Office Address Phone Residents of Victoria We are residents, family and friends of present and Albert Park Martin Foley 46 Rouse St, Port Melbourne 3207 9646 7173 past retirement village residents. Some of us work Altona Jill Hennessey Suite 603, Level 1, 2 Main St, Point Cook 9395 0221 Town Centre, Point Cook 3030 with villages. We are nearly all volunteers and Bayswater Heidi Victoria Suite 2, Mountain High Centre, 7 High St, 9729 1622 Bayswater 3153 personally contributing the funds for this brochure. Bentleigh Nick Staikos 723 Centre Rd, Bentleigh East 3165 9579 7222 Box Hill Robert Clark 24 Rutland Rd, Box Hill 3128 9898 6606 We support Andrew Denton’s Go Gentle Australia Brighton Louise Asher Ground Floor, 315 New St, Brighton 3186 9592 1900 Who decides if we die in Broadmeadows Frank McGuire Shop G42, Broadmeadows Shopping 9300 3851 and Stop Victorians Suffering who provide Centre, Broadmeadows 3047 Brunswick Jane Garrett Suite 1, 31 Nicholson St, 9384 1241 extreme suffering? us advice and guidance. Brunswick East 3057 Bulleen Matthew Guy Shop 30D, Bulleen Plaza, 101 Manningham Rd, 9850 7983 Bulleen 3105 Bundoora Colin Brooks Suite 1, 1320 Plenty Rd, Bundoora 3083 9467 5657 Politicians, if we Please help us to be heard Burwood Graham Watt 1342 Toorak Rd, Camberwell 3124 9809 1857 Carrum Sonya Kilkenny Ground Floor, 622 Nepean Hwy, Carrum 3197 9773 2727 Caulfield David Southwick Suite 1/193, Balaclava Rd, Caulfield North 3161 9527 3866 don’t speak now. – donate $5 Clarinda Hong Lim Level 1, 1312 Centre Rd, Clayton South 3169 9543 6081 Cranbourne Jude Perera 157A Sladen St, Cranbourne 3997 5996 2901 As we get closer to the vote the powerful (and Croydon David Hodgett 60 Main St, Croydon 3136 9725 3570 Dandenong Gabrielle Williams Retail 1, 8-10 Halpin Way, Dandenong 3175 9793 2000 Our voices wealthy) groups who don’t want change will Eltham Vicki Ward 718 Main Rd, Eltham 3095 9439 1500 Essendon Danny Pearson Suite 1, 28 Shuter St, Moonee Ponds 3039 9370 7777 . invest in the media and behind the scenes to Ferntree Gully Nick Wakeling Unit 4, 91 Dorset Rd, Ferntree Gully 3156 9758 6011 must be heard Footscray Marsha Thomson 204 Nicholson St, Footscray 3011 9689 4283 get their message across – this has happened Forest Hill Neil Angus 4 Lawrence St, Blackburn South 3130 9877 5628 Frankston Paul Edbrooke 140 Young St, Frankston 3199 9783 9822 over 30 times before. Hawthorn John Pesutto 325 Camberwell Rd, Camberwell 3124 9882 4088 Ivanhoe Anthony Carbines 56 Beetham Parade, Rosanna 3084 9457 5328 Kew Tim Smith Suite 1/ 400 High St, Kew 3101 9853 2999 We are mostly volunteers but we can do a lot Keysborough Martin Pakula Suite 3, 387-389 Springvale Rd, Springvale 3171 9547 6262 Kororoit Marlene Kairouz Shop T54, Brimbank S/C, Cnr Neale and Station 8361 7133 with a little. Please donate $5 (or more) to Stop Roads, Deer Park 3023 Malvern Michael O'Brien 313 Waverley Rd, Malvern East 3145 9576 1850 Victorians Suffering so OUR opinions can be Melbourne Ellen Sandell 146-148 Peel St, North Melbourne 3051 9328 4637 Mill Park Lily D'Ambrosio Ground Office 2, 30 Oleander Dr, Mill Park 3082 9422 5171 heard. Mordialloc Tim Richardson 374 Nepean Hwy, Chelsea 3196 9772 4544 Mt. Waverley Michael Gidley 1/40 Montclair Ave, Glen Waverley 3150 9561 0511 Mulgrave Daniel Andrews 517A Princes Hwy, Noble Park 3174 9548 5644 All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Narre Warren Luke Donnallen Shop 91, Endeavour Hills S/C, Cnr Heatherton 9706 0566 North Rd & Matthew Flinders Ave, Google: Stop Victorians Endeavour Hills 3802 To donate on the web: Narre Warren Judith Graley Suite 4, 418 Princes Hwy, 9704 6055 Suffering or Go Gentle Australia, or phone South Narre Warren 3805 Niddrie Ben Carroll 473 Keilor Rd, Niddrie 3042 9379 5879 0473 634 314 with your card details. Northcote Fiona Richardson 404 High St, Northcote 3070 9481 5777 Oakleigh Steve Dimopoulos Ground Floor, 3 Chester St, Oakleigh 3166 9568 2456 “I have been diagnosed with rapid and incurable Pascoe Vale Lizzie Blandthorn 416a Bell St, Pascoe Vale 3044 9354 9935 Prahran Sam Hibbins 94 Chapel St, Windsor 3181 9981 9501 brain cancer. I am tough. I know death and Thank you too for your support. Preston Robin Scott 375 High St, Preston 3072 9478 5611 I don’t want to die suffering. I need a choice.” Richmond Richard Wynne 112 Smith St, Collingwood 3066 9415 8901 Ringwood Dee Ryall 44 New St, Ringwood 3134 9870 7396 If you have a question please contact: Rowville Kim Wells 9 Lynton Pl, Scoresby 3179 9764 8988 Jen Barnes, 40 years a Victorian nurse. Sandringham Murray Suite 3, 56-60 Bay Rd, Sandringham 3191 9598 2688 Stacey Halls Thompson St Albans Natalie Suleyman Shop M004A, Keilor S/C, 80 Taylors Rd, 9367 9925 Go Gentle Australia Keilor Downs 3038 M: 0473 634 314 Sunbury Josh Bull Office 4, Block B, 33-35 Macedon St West, 9740 4091 Sunbury 3429 E: [email protected] Sydenham Natalie Hutchins Shop 11, Aquagardens Shopping Centre, 9449 1511 28A Hume Dr, Sydenham 3037 Tarneit Telmo Languiller C1, Level 1, 100 Overton Rd, 9916 1778 Williams Landing 3027 Thomastown Bronwyn Suite 10, 2 Graystone Court, 9401 2711 Halfpenny Epping 3076 Warrandyte Ryan Smith Suite 2, 1020 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster East 3109 9841 5166 Werribee Tim Pallas 2/56-58 Watton St, Werribee 3030 9741 1133 Williamstown Wade Noonan 101 Douglas Pde, Williamstown 3016 9399 9022 Yuroke Ros Spence 3A Hamilton St, Craigieburn 3064 9305 7177 In the end it’s your choice. ABN: 61 613 668 643 Victorian politicians will You will: Who supports this law soon vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ on a 1. have a serious and incurable condition The majority of Victorians. Opinion polls new law for Voluntary 2. be experiencing deep suffering over the last decade show consistent support at Assisted Dying 3. be beyond even the reach of palliative between 70-80%, including high levels of - village residents have care. Catholics and Anglicans. your say You will have to request doctors to act. Two An Australian Medical Association doctors will have to agree that, medically speaking, Doctors. Our politicians will decide if they will give us survey last year found that almost 40% of there is no hope. They will prescribe you a lethal control of how we wish to die if we are doctors support Voluntary Assisted Dying and drink which you can choose to take – or not. experiencing extreme physical suffering. that a majority would help terminally ill people There are three basic principles; die if it became law. If our politicians vote ‘Yes’ for the new laws we 1. your request must be voluntary can get medication that will assist us to die as we Nurses. Victoria’s nurses, our primary choose and not face extreme suffering. This is 2. you must be a mentally competent adult. caregivers and those who deal most closely called ‘voluntary assisted dying’ (VAD). This excludes children or those with with the suffering of dying patients, officially dementia or Alzheimer’s disease support a law for Voluntary Assisted Dying. If our politicians vote ‘No’, nothing will change. 3. you must suffer from a physical illness. We will have to hope a doctor will ‘help’ us in our Who wants to stop this law final days – by breaking the law. Who decides if we get the new Mainly conservative faith-based groups. They We won’t have a choice of when we die or how VAD laws and when have been effective in blocking more than we die. We will have to suffer and wait for our The elected politicians of the Victorian 30 previous attempts to pass this law around illness to kill us in a hospital or hospice or in Parliament decide. Australia. palliative care. It is very unlikely we will die at The VAD reforms have been in development home, with our family. for two years by the Government, with a How can you be heard Evidence from the Victorian Coroner shows that Parliamentary Committee Inquiry, an Expert A hand written letter is very powerful. an alarming number of us faced with Ministerial Advisory Panel and a Discussion Please write to your local member. See untreatable illness will decide to commit Paper. addresses on the next page. suicide, alone, to protect family and doctors. The VAD legislation has been written and will Strength in numbers But the new VAD laws can change this. You be voted on in the Victorian Parliament, most will have choice. You will have control. likely by the end of the year. Each politician With others in the village organise an will have a ‘conscience’ vote – meaning they appointment and take the village bus. What is the new VAD law can vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ based on what they You should be respectfully seen - you are all The objective of the new Voluntary Assisted individually feel is best – or right. local constituents. AND organise a petition to Dying law is to offer relief from suffering to Your only say in this is with your local your local MP. If you do any of these, consider competent adults who are in the “last weeks and Member of Parliament before the vote. If you letting your local paper know. months” of an incurable physical illness, such as want your voice heard, you need to speak to cancer. him or her soon. .
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