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NSW voters reject moves to limit aged care residents' access to VAD
Three quarters (75%) of NSW voters say they do not support a bid by religious health care providers to ban access to Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in aged care facilities they run.
Read more'Dogma should never trump compassion'
Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has written an open letter to NSW MPs urging them to back the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021.
Read moreOne step closer to assisted dying law in NSW
The Upper House has voted to send the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill to a final reading. NSW is now a significant step closer to joining every other state in allowing end-of-life choice.
Read moreNo more delays to NSW VAD debate
More than 150 people rallied outside NSW parliament to urge the Upper House to prioritise debate on the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill, saying too many people had already died waiting.
Read moreWhy you should sign the latest VAD petition
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been asking you to sign a petition to NSW Parliament in support of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) - yes that’s right, another petition!
If you were one of the 100,000 who signed Dying with Dignity NSW’s petition last year, you may well be asking why another one, and why so soon?
Read moreNSW VAD bill introduced to Upper House
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.
Read moreNSW VAD Inquiry released, now allow time for debate
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.
Read moreVAD demand 'exceeds expectations' in WA
Demand for voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia is three times greater than expected, new figures from the VAD Review Board reveal.
Read moreBy-election voters reject further delays in enacting NSW VAD law
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.
Read moreVoluntary Assisted Dying - let's get this done
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?
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