There is a renewed push in Victoria to allow doctors to be able to use telehealth to assess and approve requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide. The private members’ bill has been introduced by the Justice Party. Continue reading

The peak body for Catholic health and aged care providers has called on the South Australian Government to properly investigate the cost of a world-class palliative care system in the state before proceeding with pushing assisted suicide and euthanasia laws through that state. Continue reading

  HOPE is proud to partner with Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor, Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia. It is no longer acceptable for state governments to ignore the voices of Indigenous Australians when it comes to euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation. Read the statement below: Continue reading

Labor MP Clare Scriven is one of seven Upper House MLCs in the South Australian Parliament who voted against Kyam Maher MLC’s euthanasia and assisted suicide bill.  Ms Scriven articulated the issue well when she said: Continue reading

David Sandford is 84 years old, and describes himself as being “in pretty good health.” Continue reading

In an honest interview about the crisis currently facing the state’s hospitals, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has described the strain on medical staff and hospital resources, and foreshadowing the worst is yet to come. Continue reading

New South Wales woman Barbara Eckersley has been found not guilty of murder, and guilty only of the lesser charge of manslaughter, after putting lethal drugs in the soup given to her mother. Continue reading

Before the West Australian euthanasia and assisted suicide regime has even been implemented, activists are already trying to see its reach expanded. Continue reading

When Canada’s Supreme Court delivered its judgment legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2015, it recognised that there could be risks of misuse and harm in doing so, but considered that “a properly administered regulatory regime [would be] capable of protecting the vulnerable from abuse or error.” It endorsed the view that risks to vulnerable patients of misuse of the system could be “very substantially minimised through a carefully designed system that imposes strict limits that are scrupulously monitored and enforced.” (my emphasis) Continue reading

There are thousands of patients living and being treated in the Penrith, Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury regions of western Sydney who are nearing the end of their lives. Continue reading