Spotlight: How death became the fight of Andrew Denton’s life
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The Die-Gribble Argument and Euthanasia
After he died, how did your campaign start? I had no inkling or intention that this was going to take over my life and it's really almost become my full-time work. What I basically found is the arguments didn't hold water and most of the facts were distorted or plain wrong or questionable. So I saw an unfair fight. Those that needed this law, people who were terminally ill, families who'd been through terrible trauma, they didn't really have a voice. They were not physically or in many cases emotionally capable to be heard in the corridors of power. Were very powerful institutions, most particularly the Catholic Church, or so the Anglican Church,. Or so many of
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