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View from The Hill: House vote on allowing territories to legalise voluntary assisted dying likely this week

Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas In 1997, Tony Burke was a high profile organiser mustering support to quash a law that had been passed in the Northern...

What happens if you want access to voluntary assisted dying but your nursing home won’t let you?

Image: Shutterstock Voluntary assisted dying is now lawful in all Australian states. There is also widespread community support for it. Yet some residential institutions, such as hospices and aged-care...

Voluntary assisted dying will soon be legal in all states. Here’s what’s just happened in NSW and what it means for you

Image: Shutterstock The last state in Australia, New South Wales, has today passed its voluntary assisted dying bill. This means the vast majority of the population now...

Voluntary assisted dying is one step closer in NSW. Now the negotiation starts

Voluntary assisted dying is one step closer in NSW  Image: Shutterstock New South Wales is moving closer to legalising voluntary assisted dying. But there are...

Voluntary assisted dying will be debated in NSW parliament this week. Here’s what to expect

  Picture: Shutterstock Voluntary assisted dying has been available to eligible Victorians for more than two years, and to Western Australians since July 2021. Laws...

Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying scheme is challenging and complicated. Some people die while they wait

  Picture: Shuttlestock Voluntary assisted dying laws, which allow terminally ill people who meet strict eligibility criteria to end their life, have been operating in...

The fear that dare not speak its name: how language plays a role in the assisted dying debate

Language is powerful, and in the euthanasia debate it's use is particularly powerful. Arguments in the “euthanasia debate” (as it is colloquially referred to...

Voluntary assisted dying is not a black-and-white issue for Christians – they can, in good faith, support it

 Religious opponents of assisted dying laws most often appeal to the sanctity of human life. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit. According to at...

Victoria may soon have assisted dying laws for terminally ill patients

  Assisted dying legislation is likely to be introduced inVictorian Parliament within a month, and be based on a report launched today by Brian...

Viewpoints: should euthanasia be available for people with existential suffering?

Existential suffering refers to an individual experiencing a lack of meaning or sense of purposelessness in life. Euthanasia debates often focus on people experiencing...
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