Parliament seems poised to test Labor’s commitment to the use of Telehealth for voluntary assisted dying, even as Albanese remains personally opposed.
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In a rare act of bipartisanship, an independent MP and a Liberal backbencher have proposed properly factoring in young people’s needs when drafting new policy.
This process is ill-equipped to deal with such consequential issues.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has voted in support of changing the law on assisted dying before and has spoken of wanting a fresh debate in parliament.
The private member’s bill is unlikely to get through, but it raises important points about the scourge of pork-barrelling in Australian politics.
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