Influential Australian journalist Andrew Denton has launched a new campaign for assisted dying in Australia, and called on the Catholic Church to “stay out” of the euthanasia debate…

As Gough Whitlam’s attorney general, he was Australia’s first law officer. Today he and his wife keep his and hers jars of the banned drug Nembutal for the day they decide they want to die..

Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…

A lethal drug promoted by euthanasia campaigners as a peaceful way to die is easily being illegally imported into Australia…

Legislation to allow voluntary euthanasia in New South Wales has been defeated in the state upper house. The Rights of the Terminally Ill bill, which was introduced by Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann, would have let terminally ill people who still retain their decision making capacity request assistance to die…