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In February 2020 the Spanish parliament voted to approve plans to legalise voluntary euthanasia. The bill went to committee and the Senate before a final vote in the lower house. [165] The lower house approved the bill in December 2020. [166] On 17 December 2020, the Congress of Deputies passed a bill to regulate the right to euthanasia. [167]
Voluntary assisted dying schemes have been in effect in the following states; Victoria since 19 June 2019, [1] Western Australia since 1 July 2021, [2] Tasmania since 23 October 2022, [3] Queensland since 1 January 2023, [4] South Australia since 31 January 2023 [5] and New South Wales since 28 November 2023. [6]
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A police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old woman with a Taser in an Australian nursing home has been found guilty of manslaughter after the jury found that the great-grandmother, who was ...
Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering, [1] while assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is suicide committed with the aid of a physician. Assisted suicide is often confused with euthanasia.
The Afghan Files are a set of Australian Defence Force documents about the operation of Australia's special forces in Afghanistan. [1] The documents were leaked to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) by David McBride, [2] and seven stories were ultimately published as a result.
R v Latimer, [2001] 1 SCR 3 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering his disabled daughter, Tracy Latimer. The case sparked an intense national debate as to the ethics of what was claimed as a mercy killing. [1]
Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.