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NSW Parliament votes against changes to assisted dying laws
The NSW Legislative Council has voted 23–16 against a bill that would have allowed faith-based aged care facilities to decline offering voluntary assisted dying on site. Source: The Weekly Source.
Assisted dying laws face challenge from top lawyer in aged care debate
Australia’s euthanasia laws are facing the prospect of a constitutional crisis, with a plan to allow religious aged care homes to reject voluntary assisted dying on their premises facing a challenge from a prominent lawyer. Source: The Australian.
Right to Life rally condemns ACT’s controversial assisted dying law
Opponents of the ACT’s voluntary assisted dying legislation gathered outside the territory’s Legislative Assembly on Monday, marking the first day the controversial law came into effect. Source: Catholic Voice.
Victoria’s lower house passes major reforms to assisted dying
Major reforms to Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying laws – which would allow doctors to openly discuss the end-of-life option with terminally ill patients – have passed Parliament’s lower house. Source: Herald Sun.
Liberals divided on changes to voluntary assisted dying
New South Wales Opposition Leader Mark Speakman has backed a Liberal MLC’s push to change euthanasia laws, insisting it would be a reasonable compromise for aged care homes to move a terminally ill resident to another facility if they want to choose the timing of their death. Source: SMH.
MPs expecting fiery debate over proposed assisted dying reforms
Victorian Labor MPs are preparing to move amendments to their party’s proposed assisted dying reforms, as parliamentarians brace for fiery debate to stretch into the early hours this week. Source: The Age.
Uruguay becomes first Latin American country to legalise assisted suicide
Uruguay has legalised euthanasia, becoming the first country in Latin America to pass a law that allows assisted suicide. Source: BBC.
Archbishop Fisher says Australia has embraced ‘culture of death’
Pope John Paul II’s 1995 Evangelium Vitae encyclical emphasised the inherent value of human life and warned against a “culture of death”. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP believes that Australia has embraced this culture. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Bishops urge faithful to oppose changes to Victoria’s euthanasia laws
Victoria’s bishops have written a pastoral letter to the community in response to the Victorian Government’s plans to amend the state’s euthanasia and assisted suicide laws. Source: Melbourne Catholic.