Another Australian state legalises voluntary euthanasia
The Hindu
Queensland’s Parliament passed the law with 61 of the state’s 93 lawmakers voting in favour.
Voluntary euthanasia became legal in a fifth Australian state on Thursday, more than 20 years after the country repealed the world’s first mercy killing law for the terminally ill.
Queensland’s Parliament passed the law with 61 of the state’s 93 lawmakers voting in favour.
New South Wales, the nation’s most populous state, is now the only state that doesn’t allow assisted suicide.
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