Philip Nitschke has won his bid for a right of reply after claims that Senator Conroy misrepresented information which implicated his book The Peaceful Pill Handbook and organisation Exit International in fourteen suicides.

Dr Nitschke said that Senator Steven Conroy had been "caught out" after deliberately misrepresenting the complex issue of youth suicide to suit his government's agenda.

That agenda was mandatory internet filtering which was to include Exit International - the leading organisation in voluntary euthanasia - of which Dr Nitschke is the director.

Senator Conroy said in the May 24 estimates hearing that the handbook promotes a veterinary drug called Nembutal as the "peaceful pill" and Dr Nitschke helps people get the illegal drug from Mexico.

A recent report by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine found that 14 people had overdosed on this drug.

The clarification of the figure was published in The Age in a letter to the editor by Victorian Institute Forensic Medicine Director, Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith. Prof Ozanne-Smith said that most of those dying of pentobarbitone toxicity had "knowledge of the drug and/or access to it from their work experience or workplace."

Senator Conroy failed to mention the clarification of the figures - taking them out of context.