Patients seeking to access voluntary assisted dying (VAD) are likely to be concurrently receiving care from institutions with different levels of participation in VAD. This article reports on the various institutional approaches to VAD based on interviews with regulators. Overall, the findings revealed significant diversity in how institutions approached various VAD activities.

Only 527 of around 1,630 potential organ donors became donors in 2024 due to medical and logistic reasons. With 1,800 Australians currently on the transplant waitlist, this report highlights the critical need to increase the consent rate for organ donation to meet the demand for transplants.

This report contains quotes and feedback from people who have chosen to die from taking the voluntary assisted dying substance, those who were with them when they died, and trained medical practitioners involved in voluntary assisted dying cases. It details activity from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, in addition to activity since the...

Dementia Australia supports the right of every person, including those living with dementia, to exercise choice over end-of-life care options, which may include Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation measures.

The ACT government recognises that the majority of Australians support voluntary assisted dying with appropriate safeguards in place. This consultation paper seeks the views of the ACT community about how voluntary assisted dying should be implemented in the ACT.