News from Queensland
On January 1, 2023, Voluntary Assisted Dying became operational in Queensland. The Queensland parliament voted to legalise voluntary assisted dying in September 2021 after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk took the policy…
Applause broke out in the Queensland Parliament Gallery as this historic bill passed, legalising voluntary assisted dying. Queensland will become the fifth state to legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD) after…
Today is a momentous occasion. A huge occasion. Today became about the dying. Not religion or politics, but about the dying. The debate and trying for amendments demonstrated that the…
This petition on Change.org to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (Queensland Premier) was started by Tanya Batte. Andrew Denton with Tanya Battel I've battled breast cancer since 1997. It's now terminal…
Super star VAD advocate and terminal illness sufferer, Tanya Battel, writes passionately about last week’s Queensland Environment and Health Committee inquiry. She states that the views of ‘the dying’, appear…
The Queensland Parliament will hold a conscience vote on Voluntary Assisted Dying laws later this year. To be eligible under the legislation, a person would need to be diagnosed with…
