Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill
1: Euthanasia bill dies in Parliament | October 17, 2013
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…
2: Narrow defeat for euthanasia bill in Tasmanian Parliament | October 17, 2013
Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…