The fourth report of Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has been released, and it includes the third round of statistics for Victoria’s euthanasia and assisted suicide regime. Continue reading

The Aged Care Royal Commission has released its final report after a two-year inquiry. Continue reading

We hear time and time again that an “overwhelming majority” of Australians are in favour of euthanasia.  Continue reading

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has announced that debate about Mike Gaffney’s euthanasia bill will resume as the first order of business when Parliament returns on 2 March this year. The University of Tasmania review into the legislation has been completed and provided to the government. Continue reading

COVID-19 has been responsible for 65 per cent of recent deaths of people with learning disabilities.  Continue reading

Despite claims from euthanasia activists that euthanasia can be made “safe”, evidence of the practice in Belgium, as uncovered in a new academic article published in the Journal and Medicine and Philosophy, tells a very different story. Continue reading

Irene Thomas Hospice has only ten beds in its entire facility, but Canadian health officials are so determined to ensure euthanasia is in every area of the “health care” system that they are preparing to evict the management, staff and patients from the hospice. Continue reading

A new statement issued by the UN Human Rights Council, which includes the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has sounded the alarm about the growing trend to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with a disability or disabling conditions, who are not terminally ill. Continue reading

With the Queensland Parliament set to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in the state this year, a parliamentary petition initiated by Cherish Life Queensland is calling on the state government to urgently address the gross underfunding of palliative care in the state and to refer any bill to a parliamentary committee for scrutiny and wide community consultation. Continue reading

The death bus rolled into Newcastle last week, setting up shop in Hunter shopping centres and asking passers-by to add their signature to a petition to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia in New South Wales. Continue reading