Senator Leyonhjelm, the Sponsor of the Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 spoke during the Second Reading on 16/2/17: “My bill would not automatically make assisted suicide legal in the territories but it would overturn the Andrews bill and allow the parliaments of...
The AMA represents only 29% of Australia's doctors. As an organisation it still officially rejects any thought of assisting a patient to die, and many doctors have left or declined to join because of this stance. Its position on voluntary euthanasia has been the subject...
More than 20 years after he enacted the nation’s first assisted suicide laws — later axed by the federal government — Marshall Perron says the battle to bring back the right to die has been revived. He concedes his efforts two decades ago were something of...