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02-11-11 Media release: Study shows legal voluntary euthanasia is no threat to palliative care
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 14:35

A study of the effects of legalising assisted dying on the provision of good palliative care has just been reported in the British Medical Journal. The multi-country research was conducted on behalf of the UK’s independent Commission on Assisted Dying which is chaired by former Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer.

Mr Neil Francis, CEO of aid-in-dying law reform group YourLastRight.com, said “Some palliative care specialists in Australia worry that legalisation of assisted dying for the terminally ill would damage the funding and practice of palliative care.”

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31-08-11 Media release: Victorian motion lost but MP Hartland vows to press on
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 18:00

This afternoon, a motion put to the Victorian Legislative Council by Colleen Hartland, Greens member for Western Metropolitan, was defeated 16/19. Hartland’s motion was to ask the Attorney General, Robert Clark, to refer the matter of dying with dignity to the Victorian Law Reform Committee for full community consultation.

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24-05-11 Media release: Voluntary euthanasia can complement palliative care
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 16:08

Access to quality palliative care should go hand-in-hand with the availability of legal physician-assisted dying for terminally ill Australians, according to Australia’s peak body campaigning for aid-in-dying, YourLastRight.com.

This week is National Palliative Care Week and YourLastRight.com has renewed calls for legislative change to allow access to aid-in-dying for rational adults experiencing intolerable and unrelievable suffering from a terminal or advanced incurable illness.

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16-05-11 Media release: New research upholds quality of assisted dying
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 16:08

New research has confirmed that the quality of death experienced by terminally ill patients who requested and received lethal prescriptions was in some cases better, and in all cases no worse, than those who chose not to pursue physician-assisted dying.

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22-03-11 Media release: Voluntary euthanasia leader slams plans for NSW rally
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 14:14

The leader of Australia’s national alliance for the right to die, Mr Neil Francis, has criticised plans for a rally tomorrow at NSW Parliament House by minority religious opponents of voluntary euthanasia.

Mr Francis, CEO of YourLastRight.com, said the proposed rally was just the latest attempt to divert attention and political debate away from the wishes of most Australians, who support legislation for the right of the terminally ill to die with dignity.

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29-10-10 Media release: Leading dying with dignity advocates push for NSW Rights of the Terminally Ill bill.
Friday, October 29, 2010 - 16:10

Should New South Wales follow Belgium and Oregon?

Two leading advocates for dying with dignity will be in Sydney Friday October 29 to make dying with dignity a reality for people in NSW.

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22-10-10 Media release: Leading assisted dying advocates visit South Australia
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 23:00

Should South Australia follow Belgium and Oregon?

The legalisation of dying with dignity is a hot-button issue with South Australians. After decades of overwhelming public support but little government action, the Key-Parnell legislation currently before Parliament enjoys cross-party support and has a realistic chance of passing through both houses.

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06-10-10 Media release: YourLastRight.com TV commercial banned
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 23:00

New national alliance goes online to beat censorship

Commercials Advice (CAD), the authority established by Free TV Australia to classify and approve television commercials has banned another television commercial designed to promote debate about law reform for dying with dignity. The ban comes despite CAD having previously given the commercial preliminary approval.

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