The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 has cleared its final hurdle in Western Australian parliament, making WA the second State in the nation after Victoria to pass a contemporary, compassionate and safe voluntary assisted dying law.

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 has passed through the Western Australian Upper House.

Promising news from Western Australia, as the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill moves to its third reading in the Upper House.

A petition signed by 7,460 Western Australians to legalise voluntary assisted dying has been tabled in parliament today.

New Zealand is to become the first country in the world to put the issue of assisted dying to a binding public vote.

168 doctors have signed an open letter to WA MPs explaining why they support the WA Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill.

Supporters of more compassionate end-of-life choices are urged to write to their Upper House MPs to ask them not to delay or sabotage the progress of the Western Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill.

Western Australia’s peak dementia-support organisation, Alzheimer’s WA, has endorsed the State's Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, saying that safeguards contained in the legislation are adequate.

WA’s top neurologists have implored MPs to pass voluntary assisted dying laws, saying patients suffering from motor neurone disease are being forced to end their lives through starvation or suicide.

The WA Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 has passed without amendment through Western Australia’s Lower House.