Opinion

We need vastly better funding for palliative medicine technology

September 10 2018 - 12:00am

The power of the states to legislate for euthanasia (or assisted dying, assisted suicide) arises accidentally under the constitution. Since the power was not conferred on the Commonwealth Parliament, state parliaments have it by implication and default though it was unknown in 1901.

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