Tag: Calvary Public Hospital
Calvary inquiry not recommended by Senate Committee
The ACT Government should not be made to hold an inquiry into its forced takeover of the Calvary Hospital, a Senate Committee has recommended...
Cross removed from Calvary as ACT Govt executes hospital takeover
After a five-week campaign to save the hospital, the ACT Government's planned acquisition went ahead on its planned date of 3 July
Calvary ‘steps away’ from palliative care hospice Clare Holland House
Calvary CEO Martin Bowles said he made the decision with 'a heavy heart' but did not see Clare Holland House as a separate service
Monica Doumit: Dark clouds from Canada to Canberra
Calvary Health Care’s legal challenge to the ACT Government’s takeover is a positive step forward. Very little has been revealed of the legal strategy at this point: the current aim seems only to hit the “pause” button on the government’s seizure of the land while a more fulsome case can be mounted.
ACT Supreme Court yet to decide on Calvary injunction
The outcome of Calvary Hospital’s push to block the ACT Government's takeover may not be known for some days, following an ACT Supreme Court...
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: What’s at stake in the Calvary case
Death and taxes: both are said to be inevitable. And so, it seems, is bracket creep with both. The Benelux countries—Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg—legalised euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the early 2000s and in each place there was soon pressure to extend ‘death with dignity’ ...
Calvary Hospital launches legal action to stop forced acqusition
Calvary Healthcare has sought an injunction in the ACT Supreme Court to prevent the forced takeover of Calvary Public Hospital
Calvary Hospital takeover at an impasse
Negotiations between Calvary Public Hospital and the ACT government remain at an impasse following a meeting between Calvary’s national CEO Martin Bowles and Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith about the hospital’s compulsory acquisition
John Warhurst: Canberran context matters in Calvary takeover case
Australian Catholics should take a deep breath in relation to the ACT government’s announcement that it plans to compulsorily acquire Calvary Hospital in Canberra. Opinion in the Canberra community is divided; both the Canberra Times and the ACT president of the Australian Medical Association see merit in the proposal. Others do not.
Monica Doumit: Calvary takeover reveals political endgame
“We need to do another Goulburn school strike. If we shut the schools like they did back then, the government would have to listen to us on religious freedom.” “We need to do another Goulburn school strike. If we shut the schools like they did back then, the government would have to listen to us on religious freedom.”
Archbishop urges support for petition to reverse Calvary hospital takeover
Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP is urging support for a petition asking the ACT government to reverse its decision to take over Calvary Public Hospital.
