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

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 The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, and NHMRC-funded rese ...

, Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Department of Health & Ageing and Cancer Voices. In 2005 he worked with the Australian Senate, 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 Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

in 2000. He was awarded the

Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Go ...

on 11 June 2001 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 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 Assisted dying, assisted death, aid in dying or help to die may refer to: * Assisted suicide, help or assistance to another person to end his or her life * Euthanasia, the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering * Pall ...

. After years of living with

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), also known as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a group of blood cancers that includes all types of lymphomas except Hodgkin lymphomas. Symptoms include enlarged lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and tire ...

and having had a number of mini- strokes, he committed suicide on the day of the Western Australian state election in March 2017. Deverall's widow, Noreen Fynn, was on a panel that wrote voluntary assisted dying laws for the Western Australian parliament. Voluntary assisted dying was legalised in Western Australia in December 2019, and came into effect in July 2021.

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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deverall, Clive Members of the Order of Australia People from Perth, Western Australia 1941 births 2017 deaths Suicides in Western Australia