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Queensland MP Duncan Pegg resigns, triggering byelection
“They fight to live every day — I personally fight to live every day — and there are so many positive stories of people successfully fighting cancer.
“People with terminal illnesses want to have an option.”
Mr Pegg also spoke about being bailed up, while he was in the members’ bar drinking coffee “or perhaps something a bit stronger”, by former agriculture minister Bill Byrne.
Duncan Pegg will resign from Parliament to focus on his health.
“He seemed really happy to see me. He had found out I was on the committee and therefore could speak for 20 minutes on his bill,” he said.
“Employing the skills I had developed as a legal advocate I made the case to Bill that I was only briefly on the committee and had not prepared a…
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