Andrew Denton

And everybody from the state's attorneys generals to health ministers to the AMA has petitioned the federal attorney general, Michelle Rowland,

To fix this law, it's a pretty easy fix.

You just remove VAD from the definition of suicide in the law.

But complete silence.

You know, I find it hard to understand.

The Prime Minister has always been supportive of this law.

He came to the launch of Go Gentle at the National Press Club a decade ago.

It's causing unnecessary harm and it's difficult to understand why the government won't act on what is a relatively easy fix.

Well, I would like to see, first of all, just VAD normalized as a compassionate, person-centered part of end-of-life care.

I would like it to be thought of in exactly the same breath as palliative care.

You know, it's interesting that 80% of the people that choose VAD are also in palliative care.

These things are all part of the same discussion.

And I do have a real question about taxpayer-funded health care facilities, which obviously have a faith basis denying legal care to taxpayers in their care.

I think that's a real issue, and I think we need to look at the laws that govern this.

You know, currently, VAT doctors, they have no peak organization.

There's no government support for their needs, for instance, remuneration.

So I'd like to see them supported.

And, you know, I think of that John Lennon song, Whatever Gets You Through the Night.

Whether it's VAD or palliative care or your faith or none of the above, these should be all uncontested spaces.

They should be supported.