‘Half-Way There’: South Australian Dying Laws Move One Step Closer
th attempt at passing the laws in 25 years.
Members of the Legislative Council passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, 14 to seven, via a conscience vote.
“Halfway there,” Labor’s Shadow Attorney-General Kyam Maher wrote on Twitter at 1.24 a.m. Thursday AEST after a lengthy debate.
Maher sponsored the Bill along with lower house MP Susan Close, making South Australia the fourth jurisdiction in the country to legalise euthanasia following Victoria, Western Australia, and Tasmania earlier this year.
Maher says he was motivated to introduce the laws after watching his mother’s struggle with a terminal illness.