Can a government or health regulator use financial penalties to force a hospice or a hospital to provide euthanasia against its wishes? Continue reading

Referring the issue of euthanasia and assisted suicide to the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC) has not taken it off the table as an election issue. Continue reading

Victoria appears on track to exceed, by a factor of at least ten, its prediction of the number of people who would die by euthanasia or assisted suicide within its first year. Continue reading

Despite assurances by euthanasia proponents that legalisation would not affect the rights of individuals and organisations to conscientiously object, the current bullying of a British Columbia palliative care hospice is showing just how deceptive and misleading these assurances actually were. Continue reading

“Big Four” accounting firm KPMG has found that a significant investment in palliative care will actually save governments health care costs. Continue reading

Should patients have the right to be in hospice care where they are certain that they won’t be at risk of euthanasia?  Should a hospice facility be financially punished for providing an environment where its patients can be certain that no one will ever administer lethal drugs to them? Continue reading

WA’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 passed the state’s lower house with an overwhelming majority of 45/11 on Tuesday 24 September. Continue reading

The WA parliament, thinking they were debating euthanasia legislation, have inadvertently uncovered the appalling state of palliative care in WA, especially as it concerns residents in regional and remote parts of the state. Continue reading

With a strong majority in Western Australia’s lower house (40 of the 59 members), WA’s Labor government fully expected to ram their euthanasia bill through quickly. Continue reading

At the November 2017 election, the Queensland government told voters it had “no plans to introduce legislation to allow for voluntary euthanasia”. Continue reading