NSW voluntary assisted dying bill narrowly defeated in upper house The New South Wales Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill 2017, introduced by Nationals MP Trevor Khan, was defeated last night in the NSW upper house by a single vote.
Comparing the New South Wales and Victorian voluntary assisted dying bills Two states are debating voluntary assisted dying (VAD) bills in Australia this week.
Calls continue for Richmond safe injecting room While debate continues to rage over the possible implementation of a safe-injecting room in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Richmond, with the subject to be debated in Victorian parliament today, GPs in the area are administering life-saving healthcare services to drug-affected people in and out of their practices
Vic Government fails to reach firm decision on safe injecting room Labor has refused to reveal its final decision after Legislative Council of the Victorian Parliament yesterday debated MP Fiona Patten’s bill to implement a pilot of a medically-supervised injecting room in Richmond.
Opioids leading in drug-induced deaths Drug-related deaths in Australia are at their highest levels in the last two decades, according to figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).