Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.
Australian Labor Party party platform
The 2023 ALP National Platform includes a commitment titled "Delivering Voluntary Assisted Dying to Regional Australia", addressing access to voluntary assisted dying services for people in regional Australia.
Australian Greens party platform
Greens state policy states people have a right to choose to die with dignity and end terminal pain and suffering, provided they are psychologically capable, not under duress and proper safeguards are followed, and supports reforms to remove barriers to accessing voluntary assisted dying.
Victorian Socialists party platform
The health policy platform includes legislating to support people's choice to die with dignity.
Animal Justice Party party platform
The party supports voluntary euthanasia with appropriate safeguards to ensure the choice is free and well informed, available when a person is diagnosed with an incurable disease, illness or medical condition.
Family First Party party platform
Family First states it believes in the protection and sanctity of human life at all stages and opposes laws allowing physicians to actively assist in or directly cause a person's death, favouring expanded palliative care instead.
Katter's Australian Party party platform
The platform raised concerns that under voluntary assisted dying and related health-access laws, rural and regional Queenslanders could be "relegated to the status of second-class citizens" forced to accept a lesser standard of care compared with people in cities.
Libertarian Party party platform
The party's statement of principles holds that "freedom over one's own body" includes the freedom to take one's own life, and to assist others in doing so.
Australian Christians party platform
The party states that every person, from conception to old age and natural death, should enjoy the right to life within a caring society; it opposes euthanasia and supports better palliative care options.
Democratic Labour Party party platform
The party's policies are stated to be built on the principle that every human life has intrinsic value and dignity, supporting life from conception right through to its end, and it has published material opposing state euthanasia legislation as seriously flawed while defending conscientious objection in the medical and nursing professions.