Ben White, Queensland University of Technology and Lindy Willmott, Queensland University of Technology
July 21, 2017
An independent group of experts set up by the Victorian government has today delivered its final report outlining 66 recommendations for how voluntary assisted dying would work in the state.
Chaired by former head of the Australian Medical Association, Brian Owler, the Ministerial Advisory Panel’s role was to work out how legislation should be drafted to allow terminally ill people to receive assistance to die. The panel based its report on the recommendations of the Parliamentary committee’s Inquiry into end of life choices in December 2016.
Legislation giving effect to the report is likely to be tabled in the Victorian Parliament within a month.
Who does the law cover?
At the heart of debates about assisted dying are eligibility criteria – who can get assistance to die and who cannot. The…
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