Voluntary assisted dying has been made legal in Tasmania, what now?

Tasmania has passed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation making it the third jurisdiction in Australia to do so, after Victoria and Western Australia.

Ceara Rickard, who has been given a terminal diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, is relieved it will now be legal to end her life in the late stages of her illness.

“I don’t have a death wish, I would love to live until I was 80 or 90, at the same time there will come a point where my body gives out,” she said.

How long until it can be accessed?