Judy Dent – Judy’s name is synonymous with the VAD cause in Australia. In 1996 her husband Bob, with the aid of Dr Philip Nitschke, was the first person in the world to access an assisted death in a jurisdiction where it had been legalised. Bob was one of only four people to access an AD in the Northern Territory as the law was operative for a brief time only, before the Federal Government cruelly voided the Act. Over the last 3 decades Judy has, with unwavering commitment, worked to see VAD restored in the NT. She has also kept the ‘Northern Territory Voluntary Euthanasia Society’ alive through some bleak and difficult times. The welcomed recent passage of VAD legislation in the NT is a testimony to the hard work of Judy and others.

Emma Vulin MP - In 2016, aged 36 and a mother of 2, Emma suffered a severe stroke. She immediately embarked upon an intensive rehabilitation program to rebuild her life, which she did and in 2022 was elected to the Victorian Parliament. Tragically in 2024 Emma was once again forced to draw upon her vast reserves of courage, resilience and determination upon receiving a diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease. Emma publicly stated her support for VAD as an end-of-life choice and advocated for amendments to Victoria’s VAD Act 2017 to improve the over heavily safeguarded legislation and allow greater equity to VAD access for those for whom the original legislation had been designed to help. Emma worked quietly and unassumingly behind the scenes engaging with MPs and played an integral part in securing the successful passage of the Victorian VAD Amendment Bill, 2025. Across the political spectrum and far beyond her electorate, Emma Vulin is widely admired as a mother, partner, loyal friend, and compassionate advocate for a kinder society.

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