Tasmania: Committee says Dying with Dignity Bill "flawed"

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The Joint Standing Committee on Community Development of the Parliament of Tasmania has finished reviewing Nick McKim's Dying with Dignity Bill 2009, and rejected it, using the mildest of terms: "That the Dying with Dignity Bill 2009, the subject of this inquiry in its current form does not provide an adequate or concise legislative framework to permit voluntary euthanasia/physician assisted suicide."

McKim, the Greens' leader, hopes to have the bill debated in the House of Assembly before the end of the year: "Mr McKim says the committee was split and he will press on. "I don't regard the committee's report as particularly helpful," he said."

[Note: Some other recent stories related to this topic are in the Links: section below.]

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  • http://tinyurl.com/yjkodfc

  • http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/13/2712901.htm

    Also see:

  • Tasmania: Joint Standing Committee on Community Development [Parliament of Tasmania]
    http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/commdev.htm

    PDFs of the final report, transcripts of testimony before the committee and the text of the Bill. The 76 page final report includes an appendix containing a "Comparative Table of Euthanasia Legislation" for Tasmania, Northern Territory, Oregon and the Netherlands. Another appendix is the Greens' Voluntary Euthanasia Research Report containing their polling results on the issue.

  • Tasmanian government intends to send Greens' Bill to Committee [EuthaNEWSia, June 11]
    http://www.euthanewsia.ca/archive/2009/06/enid200906116558.4.html

    Tasmanian Deputy Premier Lara Giddings served notice that she intends to move that the Greens' Dying with Dignity Bill 2009 be sent to a parliamentary committee for study and public submissions. The Greens oppose the move, arguing that it would impose unnecessary delay.

Source:

"Dying with Dignity Bill "flawed"". ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Updated October 14, 2009 08:43:00. <www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/13/2712901.htm>. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007, GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001.

Tags:

Tags (or keywords) briefly indicate some major topics of the report.

  • assisted suicide

  • voluntary euthanasia

  • Greens

  • legislation

  • Tasmania

  • Australia

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