Voluntary assisted dying will be available to Canberrans from late next year after the ACT Legislative Assembly today passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2023.
After decades of campaigning NSW has become the last state in Australia to pass laws allowing people with a terminal illness to voluntarily end their own life.
Liberal Senator Zed Seselja’s apparent reluctance to back a bill that could allow the ACT to legislate on euthanasia has frustrated Labor and Green politicians, while Liberals have urged him to reconsider.
In response to Gary Humphries' most recent column, 'ACT sidelined in the euthanasia debate', a reader poses the question: what is the right kind of euthanasia?
