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  Hon Kyam Maher, MLC Hon Dr Susan Close, MP Hon Mark Parnell, MLC  A new Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill was tabled in both Chambers of the South Australian Parliament on Wednesday December 2,...

A new Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill was tabled in both Chambers of the South Australian Parliament on Wednesday December 2, 2020. Read the second reading speeches by Hon Kyam Maher in the Legislative Council and...

On Tuesday 17 November 2020, South Australian Labor MLC Hon. Kyam Maher gave notice in the Legislative Council that he would table a Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill on the next Private Members’ sitting day,...

On Tuesday 10 October 2020 Tasmania’s Upper House passed laws to legalise voluntary assisted dying in a final vote that was unanimous.  Independent MP Mike Gaffney’s End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020 was...

On Sunday 18 October 2020 Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, used her election campaign launch to announce that a re-elected Labor government would table voluntary assisted dying legislation in February 2021. It was a calculated announcement that elevated the...

Preliminary results released on 30 October 2020 showed 65.2% of New Zealand voters supported the End of Life Choice Act coming into force as a new law. The law will allow terminally ill people...

Angie Miller has invited supporters of Voluntary Assisted Dying in the Adelaide Hills to share their stories and discuss how we can achieve VAD law reform in SA. Angie has been advocating for VAD...

The British Medical Association’s first ever survey of its members’ views on assisted dying has found that doctors are in support of assisted dying and want the BMA to drop its official policy of...

The Report of the Joint Committee on End of Life Choices in South Australia was tabled in October 2020. In Victoria and Western Australia, Parliamentary Inquiries recommended in favour of introducing Voluntary Assisted Dying...