Clive Deverall

Clive Deverall, AM, HonDLitt (Curtin), (born 1 August 1941) was the CEO of the Cancer Council of Western Australia from 1977 to 2000.

Clive Deverall
Born(1941-08-01)1 August 1941
Watford, England
Died11 March 2017(2017-03-11) (aged 75)
South Perth, Western Australia
NationalityAustralian
Spouse
Noreen Fynn
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(m. 1996)​

Career

He worked in Western Australia in the cancer control sector from 1977 to 2000. Following his retirement from Cancer Council Western Australia in 2000, he has represented consumer interests in settings that include the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Department of Health & Ageing and Cancer Voices. In 2005 he worked with the Australian Senate,[1] assisting in writing the report of its inquiry into cancer services in Australia.

Honours

He was awarded an Honorary Doctors of Letters from the Curtin University in 2000.[2]

He was awarded the Order of Australia on 11 June 2001[3] for service to community health, particularly through the promotion of cancer awareness programmes and support services of the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia.

The Clive Deverall Society[4] was launched in 2004 by the Cancer Council Western Australia as a way of thanking the insightful people who have included a gift in their will to Cancer Council WA.

Illness and death

Deverall was an advocate for legalising voluntary assisted dying. After years of living with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and having had a number of mini-strokes, he committed suicide on the day of the Western Australian state election in March 2017.[5]

Deverall's widow, Noreen Fynn, was on a panel that wrote voluntary assisted dying laws for the Western Australian parliament.[6] Voluntary assisted dying was legalised in Western Australia in December 2019,[7] and came into effect in July 2021.[8]

Personal life

An avid squash player, in 2002 Deverall won the Plate in Men's 60-64 Division 2 in Squash at the World Master's Games, held in Melbourne, Australia.[9]

References
  1. Tabling Speech - Senator Cook
  2. Honorary Award Recipients, 12 May 2014
  3. Queen's Birthday 2001 Honours (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-03, retrieved 2015-06-27
  4. Our way of saying thank you - Cancer Council Western Australia
  5. Moodie, Claire (19 September 2017). "'With his death he made a statement': Widow speaks out on euthanasia". ABC News. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  6. Hondros, Nathan (12 November 2018). "McCusker drafted to write WA government's voluntary assisted dying law". WAtoday. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  7. "Parliament passes historic voluntary assisted dying laws for WA". Media Statements. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  8. Hamlyn, Charlotte (29 June 2021). "WA's voluntary assisted dying laws come into effect tomorrow as community leaders remain split". ABC News. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  9. World Masters Games 2002 - Squash - Game day
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