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Healthcare
'This substance will cause death’: New euthanasia rules announced
Regulations reveal the head of Victoria’s health department will be given three days to decide whether to sign off on each bid for voluntary euthanasia.
- by Aisha Dow
Latest
Foxtel announces new euthanasia drama The End with Frances O'Connor
Frances O’Connor and Dame Harriet Walter will star as a daughter and mother on either side of the right-to-die debate in the series.
- by Robert Moran
ACT government
ACT, NT speakers petition senate for equal rights amid talk of statehood
"Why is it that those numpties in the Senate think it’s okay?" asked NT speaker Kezia Purick on the question of Commonwealth interference on euthanasia.
- by Katie Burgess
Euthanasia supporters want Queensland review fast-tracked
A Queensland inquiry into aged care and assisted dying should be held as soon as possible, advocates say.
- by Sonia Kohlbacher
'If you love me, make sure I don’t wake up': WA man calls for assisted dying laws
Suzie Haines was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2005 and suffered in the last years of her life before dying in 2011.
- by Gareth McKnight
WA Parliament prepares state for debate on euthanasia, assisted suicide
A parliamentary committee has recommended the introduction of new laws to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide in Western Australia.
- by Nathan Hondros
Canberra
Labor pushes for debate on fresh euthanasia bill
Labor MPs have tried to goad the Coalition into allowing debate on another bill to restore the territories' rights.
- by Katie Burgess
Healthcare
Anger after senators vote down ACT's right to legalise euthanasia
A Canberra man living with an autoimmune disease has lashed senators who sank an attempt to restore the territories' powers to legalise euthanasia.
- by Katie Burgess
Parliament House
'This is not the end': ACT reels after Senate rejects territory rights
ACT politicians say the fight to restore the territories' rights to make laws on euthanasia is not over, despite a shock defeat in the Senate overnight.
- by Katie Burgess
Parliament House
Andrew Leigh moves to repeal euthanasia vote ban in lower house
Two Labor MPs who have opposite views on voluntary euthanasia will move to overturn restrictions on the ACT and Northern Territory that prevent the territories legalising it.
- by Katie Burgess
Health
Senator Zed Seselja to vote against restoring euthanasia voting rights
ACT Liberal Senator Zed Seselja will vote against restoring the rights of territories to legalise voluntary euthanasia.
- by Katie Burgess