DOCTORS can ignore restrictions on late-term abortions in Tasmania without fear of prosecution and potentially without any professional sanction, according to senior legal figures…

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, legalising voluntary euthanasia, was defeated in the Tasmanian House of Assembly 13 votes to 11 following speaker-at-the-time Michael Polley’s vote. This is a far narrower margin compared to 2009, where similar legislation was defeated by 15 votes to 7…

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

Tasmania’s Lower House has passed laws making it easier for same sex couples to adopt. The amendment to the Adoption Act allows gay men and women to adopt a child who is not a relative. The change passed with the …..