After passing the NSW Parliament Lower House with a thumping majority in November 2021, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill has now proceeded to the Upper House. 

The NSW Parliament's Upper House Standing Committee on Law and Justice has handed down its inquiry report into the provisions of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021. We welcome the report - but for the bill to move forward, sufficient parliamentary time must now be allocated for debate.

Demand for voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia is three times greater than expected, new figures from the VAD Review Board reveal.

A new poll shows almost two-thirds of voters want political leaders to put aside personal views and pass legislation to give terminally ill people in NSW the same end-of-life choices as other Australians.

It is 2022 and two-thirds of us now live in a state where, if we become terminally ill, we will have a choice not to suffer and to die on our own terms. But what about the rest of us?

Wow! What a year 2021 has been for end of life choice in Australia. And 2022 is set to be even bigger.

On 26 November 2021 the NSW Lower House passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill 2021 by 52 votes to 32. The bill now moves to the Upper House for a final vote in 2022.

Go Gentle Australia welcomes the commencement of debate on the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill in the NSW parliament today.

Rodney Syme AM was a man of deep and unshakeable principle who, more than any other, made possible the legalisation of Voluntary Assisted Dying across Australia.

Pain specialist Dr Gavin Pattullo corrects misinformation about palliative care and VAD, and describes the lengths his terminally ill wife went to to avoid suffering at the end of her life.