Euthanasia
Voluntary assisted dying bill passes final vote in NSW lower house
Historic reforms to grant terminally ill people the right to end their lives have cleared the NSW lower house, after members finished debating more than 160 amendments.
- by Lucy Cormack
Latest
Assisted dying bill passes first lower house vote in NSW Parliament
Voluntary assisted dying in NSW is one step closer after a vote in the lower house.
- by Alexandra Smith and Tom Rabe
Exclusive
State Parliament
Broad support for assisted dying ahead of vote on controversial bill
Almost two-thirds of NSW voters support voluntary assisted dying, new polling reveals.
- by Alexandra Smith
Opinion
Opinion
‘Add-ons’ to assisted dying bill may render it unworkable
The NSW Parliament should resist the inevitable raft of amendments to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, which is based on the VAD laws passed in other Australian states.
- by Lindy Willmott and Ben White
Opinion
State Parliament
Assisted dying bill has deleted too many safeguards
A bill put before Parliament in 2017 was far superior in the protections it offered.
- by Monica Doumit
Assisted dying bill expected to pass, Matt Kean to support despite Christian faith
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says his voluntary assisted dying bill is likely to pass the first vote. The lower house debate so far has had 39 speeches supporting the bill and 25 opposing it.
- by Alexandra Smith
Opinion
Dominic Perrottet
I’m 95 today - and I don’t need a youngster like our Premier telling me how I may die
I am healthy and not quite ready for death but that is irrelevant. My time will come soon and the manner of my exit should be my business.
- by Ed Raftery
Opinion
State Parliament
Assisted dying laws will not end suffering
Assisted dying legislation takes one kind of death and aims to make it easier. But it also opens the door to new kinds of suffering and abuse, unintended but not unforeseeable.
- by Natasha Moore
Opinion
Opinion
Faith, hope and barbarity: Ignoring the truth on assisted dying
Premier Dominic Perrottet is entitled to oppose the assisted dying bill before the NSW Parliament. What he is not allowed to do is misrepresent the plight of those who want it.
- by Andrew Denton
Opinion
Human rights
Why I support assisted dying (but with a devil’s advocate)
The bill before the NSW Parliament is meticulous, but it is flawed in a way that I am not sure can be fixed.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
‘Not hope but hopelessness’: Perrottet outlines opposition to assisted dying
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says the legacy of this term of Parliament will be to “open a door that no one can close” if voluntary assisted dying passes.
- by Alexandra Smith