You can help to get voluntary assisted dying legislation by voting for candidates who’ll support it. Our special election edition newsletter gives you information to make your choice. The Tasmanian Hare-Clark system gives an excellent opportunity to choose between candidates even in your Party of choice, and
Read more →Late last night, the NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill failed to pass the Legislative Council at the Second Reading stage by just one vote. Once again a majority of MPs have failed to even debate the Bill fully by considering all the sections in the Committee stage.
Read more →Action for voluntary assisted dying laws continues apace! Debate on the NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill will start on Thursday 16 November in the upper house. Follow its progress through Dying with Dignity NSW.
Read more →The Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill has now moved closer to success than any other Australian Bill, except the Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. That law was overturned by the Federal Euthanasia Laws Act 1997, which also removed the democratic right of the Parliaments
Read more →For the first time, a Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill has been passed in an Australian State Government House of Parliament. Yesterday, 20 October, the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower House) passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill in a vote of 47 – 37 – after a 26 hour
Read more →The August 2017 newsletter is now available. It contains important information about our AGM on 22 August and invites nominations for all positions. Please come along and add your voice to the discussion about plans for the State election and the next Bill. 18 August is another
Read more →Thank you to everyone for your support following the defeat of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill last week. And for making clear your views about the behaviour of the 16 politicians who turned their backs on compassion and respect for their fellow Tasmanians – who failed to
Read more →We’re devastated – and angry – this morning at the defeat of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, 8 votes to 16 yesterday. Our rally attracted over 400 people – more on that later. Lara Giddings and Cassy O’Connor did a magnificent job in putting the case for compassion
Read more →Time is getting short before the debate on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016 in the House of Assembly tomorrow, 24 May. And our rally between 1 and 2 in the Parliament Gardens. The strategies of opponents – yes, the same ones as always – are as obvious
Read more →This is an excellent article by Neil Francis refuting claims by Professor Margaret Somerville (remember her on Q&A?) that suicides have increased in places with voluntary assisted dying laws. Just another fear-mongering furphy in the increasingly desperate political campaign against Bills like the Tasmanian one coming up for
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