EUTHANASIA – GOVERNMENT POLICY – AUSTRALIA

Ban stands for euthanasia phone tips

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Original article by Lydia Lynch
The Australian – Page: 3 : 24-Jun-21

National legislation passed in 2005 ban doctors from encouraging suicide by phone, email or videoconference, with fines of $222,000 in place. With Queensland due to pass voluntary assisted dying legislation in September, it has written to the federal government to ask that the legislation to be amended to ensure that doctors who give voluntary assisted dying advice to terminally patients over the phone or internet are not caught up by the suicide legislation. However, the federal government has declined to give such an exemption.

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Federal watch on assisted dying plan

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Original article by Greg Brown
The Australian – Page: 7 : 9-Aug-17

Members of both major political parties in Victoria will be given a conscience vote on the State Government’s voluntary euthanasia bill, which is slated to be put to Parliament by the end of August. Meanwhile, the issue of euthanasia is not currently on the Federal Opposition’s policy agenda, according to shadow health minister Catherine King. However, King has indicated that she is in favour of doctor assisted-suicide under certain circumstances.

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