Congratulations Tasmania!
Congratulations Tasmania on this amazing achievement. As from, October 23, 2022, Voluntary Assisted Dying became a legal end-of-life option for terminally ill individuals, who are deemed eligible. Tasmania is now…
News from Tasmania
Senator calls on colleagues to stop referring to voluntary assisted dying as ‘suicide’
Together with the Rationalist Society of Australia, we welcome a Labor senator’s call for her colleagues to “get the terminology right” in the debate over voluntary assisted dying (VAD). In…
Voluntary Assisted Dying in Tasmania
The Department of Health has commenced work on the implementation of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Tasmania. There is an implementation period of up to eighteen months, which started on…
Congratulations, Tasmania!
An amazing result – a private member’s bill with a Liberal government. Special praise should be given to independent MLC Mike Gaffney, and sisters Jacqui and Nat Gray, who worked…
Upcoming Review of Tasmania’s End of Life Choices VAD Bill 2020
The Government of Tasmania has requested that the University of Tasmania conduct an independent review of the End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020 (the VAD Bill). The Independent Review’s…
