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End-of-life options to be available regardless of location: Fentiman
Wednesday February 24, 2021
In Queensland, the tyranny of distance is a factor in determining how people deal with the tragedy of terminal illness. That includes any option of euthanasia.
Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman. (AAP Image/Dan Peled)
The Palaszczuk Government will this year legislate to allow voluntary assisted dying, or euthanasia, and has asked the Queensland Law Reform Commission to draft the laws.
Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman told parliament today the QLRC had to consider how the decentralised state, and varied access to health services, would factor into the…
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