A new briefing paper from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research sets out 20 years of evidence supporting the introduction of voluntary assisted dying laws. 

National Seniors Australia has surveyed its members and found 86% support for the option of voluntary assisted dying for people with a terminal illness.

A 63-year-old terminally ill woman from Perth has become the first identified Western Australian to use the state’s Voluntary Assisted Dying law. 

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Premier Mark McGowan says he's been advised that the first person has made use of Western Australia's Voluntary Assisted Dying law.

Go Gentle Australia welcomes the NSW Draft Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021, released for consultation by Independent MP Alex Greenwich.

Objectors to Voluntary Assisted Dying aren't the only ones with a conscience. So why do their views predominate, asks QUT Health Law researcher Jodhi Rutherford.

From 1 July 2021, terminally ill Western Australians can legally access Voluntary Assisted Dying.

Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying program is challenging and complicated. Professors Ben White and Lindy Wilmott, and research fellow Marcus Sellars, ask: Can future laws do better? 

South Australia is the fourth Australian state - and the second this year - to legalise Voluntary Assisted Dying.

The Candles for Compassion vigil drew 500 supporters to Parliament House in Adelaide as MPs voted decisively to progress the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill to its final reading.