Conference Registration About Exit International Exit is Australia’s largest end-of-life choices First Name............................................. organisation. Founded by Dr Philip Nitschke in 1997, Exit International has an active community Last Name............................................. education program of meetings and information workshops. In 2008 over 2000 people will attend Address................................................. an Exit workshop. ................................Postcode................ About Bob Dent Day Telephone.............................................. Every year on 22 September, Exit commemorates the memory of Darwin man Bob Dent. On 22 September 1996, Bob became the first person Full day registration - $110 in the world to receive a legal, lethal, voluntary (includes copy of the Capacity Toolkit, injection under the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act morning tea & lunch) (NT). Over 80s (seniors’ discount) $90 Dementia Awareness Week 2008 (includes copy of the Capacity Toolkit, This year Exit joins the mental health movement in morning tea & lunch) working to raise community awareness of issues associated dementia, especially as these diseases Exit has negotiated a special rate at the relate to end of life decision making. World adjacent Chifley Hotel (cnr Victoria St & Alzheimer’s Day is on Sunday 21 September. Darlinghurst Rd) * Numbers are limited so book now * Double rooms $119 ($136 with breakfast) Book directly with the Chifley & mention Exit Dementia, for the discount on 02 9328 2755 Voluntary Euthanasia I am paying by: Cheque/ Money order Send/ Fax Registrations to & the Law Visa Mastercard Exit International Credit Card No........................................ PO Box 37781 Holiday Inn Potts Point Name on card......................................... Darwin NT 0821 Australia 203 Victoria St Ph 1300 10 3948 (EXIT) Potts Point Sydney NSW Signature............................................... Fax 02 8905 9249 22 September 2008 [email protected] Expiry Date............................................ www.exitinternational.net Conference Program Conference Speakers 9.15am Conference Registrations Colleen Cartwright - Professor Cartwright Tom’s most recent book is Who Owns Our (BSocWk( Hons), MPH, PhD) is Foundation Health? Medical Professionalism, Law and 9.45 - 10.45am Conference Welcome & Introduc- Professor of Aged Services at Southern Cross Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State tion: End-of Life Decision-Making in the Context University and Director of the Aged Services (UNSW Press 2007). Professor Faunce is also of a Dementia Diagnosis - the New Face of the VE Learning and Research Collaboration, at Coffs Director, Globalization and Health Project and a Debate Harbour. She has extensive teaching and re- Board Member, National Biosecurity Centre at Philip Nitschke – Director, Exit International search experience in ageing, ethics and medical the Australian National University. decisions at the end of life. 10.45 – 11.15am Morning Tea Philip Nitschke - Dr Nitschke ( BSc (Hons) Colleen assisted with the development and MBBS, PhD) is the Founder & Director of Austral- 11.15am - 12.15pm Substitute Decision-making: implementation of the Queensland Powers of ia’s largest voluntary euthanasia information and Ongoing Challenges for You & your Loved Ones Attorney Act (1998) and the Queensland Guardi- advocacy organisation, Exit International. Colleen Cartwright - Foundation Professor, Aged anship and Administration Act (2000). Colleen Since establishing Exit, Philip has worked tire- Services, Southern Cross University also designed the Advance Health Directive and lessly to promote people’s rights at the end of Enduring Power of Attorney forms that are now life. He is the co-author (with Fiona Stewart) of 12.15 – 1pm The Legal Trials & Tribulations of used in conjunction with that legislation. two books, Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthana- Capacity sia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill (Penguin, Tania Evers - Criminal Barrister Tania Evers - Ms Evers (BA LLB) is a barrister 2005) and The Peaceful Pill Handbook (Exit US, specialising in criminal law especially mental 2007). 1 – 2pm Lunch health/ intellectual disability and crime. Robert Young - Dr Young (BEc, BA, PhD, FAHA) 2 – 2.45pm - Dementia, Capacity & Medically As- She is President of the Lawyers Reform Associa- is Reader in the School of Humanities & Social sisted Death tion, Policy Officer of NSW Women Lawyers, a Sciences at La Trobe University. His most recent Robert Young - Reader, La Trobe University committee member of Glebe House, the Intellec- book Medically Assisted Death was published by tual Disability Rights Service, Defence Lawyers Cambridge University Press in 2007. 2.45 - 3.15pm ‘The Consultation’ - a Play by Association and International Commission of Aileen Sisson - Gold Coast Exit Theatre Troop Jurists. Tania is a sub-committee member of the Dr Young’s research interests include: Meta- Ethics Committee of the Law Society of NSW on physics (freedom and autonomy) and Moral and 3.15 – 4.15pm - Clinical & Legal Implications of Client Capacity, and other committees. Political Philosophy (bioethics, social justice and the Justins & Jenning Euthanasia trial equality). He is also the author of around 60 Tom Faunce - Assoc Professor, College of Law & Tom Faunce - Associate Professor Faunce (BA articles in scholarly and other journals. College of Medicine, Australian National University LLB (Hons) B Med. PhD) has a joint appoint- ment in the ANU College of Law & College of For many years, Dr Young was also President of 4.15pm Conference Summing up & Close Medicine. He has published widely in the area of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria. He Philip Nitschke medical professional regulation and has been a lives in Melbourne. consultant to UNESCO on its global database on 4.30pm Post Conference Drinks health law and bioethics. .