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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide when it is illegal: a qualitative study about relatives’ experiences of patients hospitalized in French Palliative Care Units

Palliative Care and Social Practice
Background: In countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are not allowed, such as France, little is known about how a request for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, expressed by an end-of-life patient, impacts their relatives.
Camille De Cock, Florence Mathieu-Nicot, Hélène Trimaille, Mathilde Giffard, Aline Chassagne   +4 more
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Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
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Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado

Voices in Bioethics, 2017
While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
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Purdy: The First Step on the Road towards Assisted Suicide [PDF]

, 2010
This article considers how likely it is that English law will be amended in the near future to provide legal recognition and acceptance of assisted suicide in light of the 2009 House of Lords decision in Purdy.
Sayer, Laura
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Transatlantic Issues: Report from Scotland [PDF]

, 2010
Several bioethical topics received a great deal of news coverage here in Scotland in 2009. Three important issues with transatlantic connections are the swine flu outbreak, which was handled very differently in Scotland, England, and America; the U.S ...
Alderson, Barnes, Brownsey, Campsie, Campsie, Conti, DAVID M. SHAW, MacAskill, Macleod, Maddox, Maddox, Mason, McNeil, Naughton, Stokes, Williams   +15 more
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ, Veljko TURANJANIN, Emir ĆOROVIĆ   +2 more
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Assisted stellar suicide in V617 Sgr

, 2005
V617 Sgr is a V Sagittae star - a group of binaries thought to be the galactic counterparts of the Compact Binary Supersoft X-ray Sources - CBSS. To check this hypothesis, we measured the time derivative of its orbital period. Observed timings of eclipse
A. S. Oliveira, Cieslinski, D. Cieslinski, J. E. Steiner, Kahabka, King, King, Knigge, Patterson, Southwell, Steiner, T. V. Ricci, Van der Hucht, van Teeseling   +13 more
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Differential-demographic risk characterization in psychological emergencies: suicide attempt and other psychological consultations [PDF]

, 2017
El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar si los marcadores demográficos de riesgo sexo y edad caracterizan diferencialmente a intento de suicidio respecto de otros motivos de consulta psicológica en urgencias.
López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia
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