The Good Death
Moderator: Tracey Spicer • Caitlin Mahar and Dr Neela Janakiramanan
As ACT law-makers consider the case for Voluntary Assisted Dying, we place that deeply human question in historical context.
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DR CAITLIN MAHAR lectures in history at Swinburne University of Technology. She completed a PhD in history at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and was awarded the Society for the Social History of Medicine Roy Porter Essay Prize, the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Ben Haneman Memorial Award and the University of Melbourne’s Dennis-Wettenhall Prize. She previously taught literature and was a restaurant critic for Fairfax Media Publications.
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DR NEELA JANAKIRAMANAN is a reconstructive plastic surgeon, author, commentator and health advocate. She was a clinical lead in the Kids off Nauru and ‘Medevac’ campaigns to improve access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers in offshore migration detention. She is a health commentator, writing for publications including Women’s Agenda, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper, and regularly appears on ABC Weekend Breakfast and ABCs The Drum. Her bestselling debut novel, The Registrar, was released in 2022.
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TRACEY SPICER AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster. The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in Australia. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.