Press Releases
March 15, 2018
NZ Independent Police Conduct Report Slams Exit Illegal Roadblock
NZ Independent Police Conduct Authority & the NZ Privacy Commissioner have today slammed the roadblock mounted by NZ Police as part of Operation Painter. Operation Painter was the undercover Police investigation that led to Exit’s Wellington Chapter Coordinator being charged with drug offences and assisting a suicide. The Roadblock was not only a breach of […]
February 20, 2018
Exit Wellington Coordinator Found Not Guilty Assisted Suicide
Press Release In Wellington’s High Court today, Exit International Coordinator Suzy Austen, has been found not guilty of assisting in the June 2016 suicide of fellow Exit International member, Annemarie Treadwell. She has been found guilty of 2 of 3 charges of importing Nembutal. The two week trial heard from 30+ crown witnesses who documented […]
February 11, 2018
Qantas Dumps Luggage 150 Passengers in Favour UK Cricket Team Bags
Qantas Dumps Luggage of 150 Passengers at Wellington Airport in Preference to Carrying Bags of Absent British Cricket Team. A Qantas decision to load the luggage of the UK touring cricket team instead of the luggage of paying passengers on flight QF161 from Sydney to Wellington on Sunday has caused chaos for those involved such […]
November 2, 2017
Euthanasia Pioneer Dies while Victorian Politicians Procrastinate
Former Exit International Social Media Manager, Jay Franklin, has died in a Melbourne hospital this week after a lifetime of suffering and incapacity from congenital Hirschsprung’s disease. Jay underwent more than 100 operations for the condition in the first few years of life, having most of his bowel removed. His later years were plagued with […]
August 6, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: 1000+ elderly Australians book for Exit workshop tour
In a planned national tour beginning on 12 August in Darwin, Exit Director Dr Philip Nitschke will return to Australia to run DIY suicide workshops for the elderly. Workshops will be held in every capital, along with several regional centres. Interest in the planned series has been particularly strong, with over 1000 Exit members, average […]
August 6, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: NZ report drives interest in DIY euthanasia options
Exit International claims there will be a number of direct consequences that will flow from the release of the NZ Parliamentary Health Select Committee review into euthanasia and assisted suicide. The report fails to make any recommendations that would lead to a change in the Crimes Act that would allow any legal assistance to suicide, […]