1. “Foster concedes that legalising assisted dying might benefit individuals in specific, extreme circumstances. But, for society as a whole, he thinks it would have insidious effects that are ...

The Allan Labor Government has accepted all recommendations from the independent review into Australia’s first voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws and will make further reforms to make them fairer.

Social work chiefs say the sector is ‘at capacity’ and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill Social workers are too busy to sit on assisted dying panels ...

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater (centre) joins as Dignity in Dying campaigners gather in Parliament Square, central London, in support of the assisted dying Bill (PA) Psychiatrists have warned there may ...

[i] If physically well suicidal people are supported in living, not ‘assisted in dying’, why not provide such support also to disabled or terminally ill suicidal people? Conversely, if we ...

Both doctors gave evidence to the assisted dying Bill committee, which is scrutinising the legislation. Ms Leadbeater dropped the need for a judge to be involved, after senior judicial figures ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victorian doctors will be allowed to initiate conversations about voluntary assisted dying with patients, and timeframes for a ...

The Labour architect of assisted dying laws has pleaded with critics not to kill her proposed legislation by flooding it with amendments. Kim Leadbeater, the Spen Valley MP who has introduced the ...

Uh oh. Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill appears to have hit another bump in the road as it now transpires there may not be enough psychiatric doctors in the profession to make it work. Last week, ...