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TASMANIA will again attempt to go it alone on major social reform with plans to legalise voluntary euthanasia by the end of the year. Premier Lara Giddings and Greens leader Nick McKim yesterday released their proposed model for “voluntary assisted dying” and called for public feedback on it, but said…
The architect of Australia’s first euthanasia laws, Marshall Perron, says there should not be a conscience vote on lifting the ban on territories legalising euthanasia, as it is a territories’ rights issue. Greens senator Richard Di Natale, a doctor, will introduce legislation to the Senate next Monday to wind back…
EUTHANASIA will be thrust on to the national agenda again with the Greens set to introduce laws that would overturn a ban on the territories legalising the controversial practice. Greens senator Richard Di Natale, a doctor, will today announce that the party is drafting legislation that would wind back a…
The ACT government has knocked back a bid for an inquiry into whether legal prohibitions on assisted suicide contradict the Territory’s Human Rights Act. Lobby group Dying with Dignity ACT was officially registered in July and supports the concept of ”elective death”, where adults could seek assistance to die at…
