Peter Kavanagh, LLB Biography
- Title:
- Australian Politician and Former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Legalizing euthanasia would have a wide range of profoundly detrimental effects. It would diminish the protection offered to the lives of all. It would allow the killing of people who do not genuinely volunteer to be killed, and any safeguards, although initially observed, would inevitably weaken over time.
There would be other long-term consequences of legalizing euthanasia that we cannot yet envisage. We can be sure that these consequences would be pernicious, however, because they would emanate from an initiative which, while nobly motivated, is wrong in principle – attempting to deal with the problems of human beings by killing them.”
Peter Kavanagh, “Opinion: Why We Should Not Legalize Euthanasia,” News Weekly, www.newsweekly.com.au, Nov. 13, 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Committee Member, Select Committee on Finance and Public Administration, April 2008-Nov. 26, 2010
- Committee Member, Select Committee on Public Land Development 2007-September 2008
- Committee Member, Select Committee on Gaming Licensing, 2007-May 2008
- Member, Legislative Council Upper House, State Parliament of Victoria, Nov. 25, 2006-Nov. 26, 2010
- Member, Democratic Labour Party
- Lecturer, Law, 1994-1996
- Lawyer, 1993-1994
- Teacher, 1986-1992, 1997-2006
- Education:
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- MA, Asian Studies, University of Melbourne, 1997
- Post graduate Diploma, Asian Studies, University of Melbourne, 1994
- BLitt, University of Melbourne, 1987
- Dip Ed, Mitchell College of Advanced Education, 1986
- LLB, University of Melbourne, 1983
- BA & LLB, University of Melbourne, 1983
- HSC (Higher School Certificate), St Joseph’s College, 1976
- Other:
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- Born in Melbourne in 1959
- Speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian/Malay
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