Add Your Name More than 80% of us believe terminally ill Australians should have a choice not to suffer at the end of life. Six states have passed voluntary assisted dying laws – but the Territories are still denied this choice. Go Gentle Australia are building Australia’s biggest Record of Support to tell politicians why we […]
Voluntary Assisted Dying now legal in 6 Australian States
Fantastic news Australia.. the New South Wales Parliament finally passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 on Thursday 19th May 2022. Voluntary Assisted Dying is now legal in NSW, the culmination of 50 years of advocacy. Victoria passed it’s laws in 2017, Western Australia in 2019, Tasmania in 2020/21 and South Australia and Queensland in […]
Bob Hawke: euthanasia should be legal in Australia
In Andrew Denton’s Better Off Dead podcast series, ex Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 86, voiced his opinion to call for voluntary euthanasia to be legalised. I think it is absurd that euthanasia is not legal within this country. It doesn’t meet any requirements of morality or good sense. “I am more than happy for my […]
Go Gentle Australia
Go Gentle Australia, founded by Andrew Denton, is an expert advisory and health promotion charity for a better conversation around death, dying and end of life choices, in particular voluntary assisted dying. We’re about the right to choose a peaceful death: to give those suffering with untreatable or terminal illness the choice to “go gentle”, […]
