Where Australian parties stand on voluntary assisted dying

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Recorded divisions on voluntary assisted dying · 16

Every recorded vote on a bill filed under this issue, in each parliament the site holds a division record for — second and third readings, plus any amendment listed with a reason. How each member voted is on their record.

• Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment (Residential Facilities) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Susan Carter (Liberal) that would let residential aged care facilities, such as faith-based ones, decline to have voluntary assisted dying carried out on their premises, aligning them with hospitals. The existing duty to make alternative arrangements would remain.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 16–2319 Nov 2025 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025Lets doctors and nurse practitioners raise voluntary assisted dying with patients, requires objecting practitioners to give minimum information, sets a single 12-month prognosis for all applicants, shortens the minimum wait between first and final requests from 9 to 5 days, and eases residency rules. It bars practitioners who are family members or beneficiaries from taking part.Third reading · Victoria · Legislative Council · Question agreed to. 26–1414 Nov 2025 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025Lets doctors and nurse practitioners raise voluntary assisted dying with patients, requires objecting practitioners to give minimum information, sets a single 12-month prognosis for all applicants, shortens the minimum wait between first and final requests from 9 to 5 days, and eases residency rules. It bars practitioners who are family members or beneficiaries from taking part.Second reading · Victoria · Legislative Council · Question agreed to. 26–1412 Nov 2025 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025Lets doctors and nurse practitioners raise voluntary assisted dying with patients, requires objecting practitioners to give minimum information, sets a single 12-month prognosis for all applicants, shortens the minimum wait between first and final requests from 9 to 5 days, and eases residency rules. It bars practitioners who are family members or beneficiaries from taking part.Third reading · Victoria · Legislative Assembly · Question agreed to. 67–1429 Oct 2025 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025Lets doctors and nurse practitioners raise voluntary assisted dying with patients, requires objecting practitioners to give minimum information, sets a single 12-month prognosis for all applicants, shortens the minimum wait between first and final requests from 9 to 5 days, and eases residency rules. It bars practitioners who are family members or beneficiaries from taking part.Second reading · Victoria · Legislative Assembly · Question agreed to. 67–1628 Oct 2025 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2023Lets an adult with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause their death, who is suffering intolerably and has decision-making capacity, choose voluntary assisted dying. Unlike other Australian schemes, it sets no time frame within which death must be expected. The person must have lived in the ACT for the last 12 months, or show a substantial connection to it; a disability or mental illness alone is not an eligible condition.Third reading · ACT · Legislative Assembly · 10th Assembly · Question resolved in the affirmative. 20–55 Jun 2024 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021A private member's bill moved by Alex Greenwich (Independent, Sydney). Lets an adult who lives in New South Wales, with an advanced, progressive disease, illness or condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative disease), choose voluntary assisted dying through an enduring request. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, residential facilities and hospitals may decline to provide it while meeting set duties to patients and residents, and new offences, some carrying life imprisonment, guard against misuse.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · 57th Parliament · Motion agreed to. 23–1519 May 2022 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021A private member's bill moved by Alex Greenwich (Independent, Sydney). Lets an adult who lives in New South Wales, with an advanced, progressive disease, illness or condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative disease), choose voluntary assisted dying through an enduring request. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, residential facilities and hospitals may decline to provide it while meeting set duties to patients and residents, and new offences, some carrying life imprisonment, guard against misuse.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · 57th Parliament · Motion agreed to. 20–1711 May 2022 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021A private member's bill moved by Alex Greenwich (Independent, Sydney). Lets an adult who lives in New South Wales, with an advanced, progressive disease, illness or condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative disease), choose voluntary assisted dying through an enduring request. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, residential facilities and hospitals may decline to provide it while meeting set duties to patients and residents, and new offences, some carrying life imprisonment, guard against misuse.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Assembly · 57th Parliament · Motion agreed to. 52–3226 Nov 2021 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021A private member's bill moved by Alex Greenwich (Independent, Sydney). Lets an adult who lives in New South Wales, with an advanced, progressive disease, illness or condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative disease), choose voluntary assisted dying through an enduring request. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, residential facilities and hospitals may decline to provide it while meeting set duties to patients and residents, and new offences, some carrying life imprisonment, guard against misuse.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Assembly · 57th Parliament · Motion agreed to. 53–3625 Nov 2021 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying BillMakes voluntary assisted dying available, at their request, to people who meet eligibility criteria that, in the mover's words, require them to be dying. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, and must give the person enough information to seek access elsewhere; entities, including faith-based organisations, may opt out, while permanent residents of a facility such as an aged-care home, which is their home, are treated differently from other patients at the later stages. The Act is to be reviewed after three years.Second reading · Queensland · Legislative Assembly · 57th Parliament · Resolved in the affirmative. 61–3016 Sep 2021 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying BillMakes voluntary assisted dying available, at their request, to people who meet eligibility criteria that, in the mover's words, require them to be dying. Health practitioners may conscientiously object, and must give the person enough information to seek access elsewhere; entities, including faith-based organisations, may opt out, while permanent residents of a facility such as an aged-care home, which is their home, are treated differently from other patients at the later stages. The Act is to be reviewed after three years.Third reading · Queensland · Legislative Assembly · 57th Parliament · Resolved in the affirmative. 61–3016 Sep 2021 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019Lets an adult who is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, has lived in Western Australia for at least 12 months, has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative condition) and suffering that cannot be relieved in a way they find tolerable, request voluntary assisted dying. It takes three requests, two verbal and a written declaration witnessed by two independent people; health practitioners may conscientiously object, and a Voluntary Assisted Dying Board oversees compliance.Third reading · Western Australia · Legislative Council · 40th Parliament · Question thus passed. 24–115 Dec 2019 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019Lets an adult who is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, has lived in Western Australia for at least 12 months, has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative condition) and suffering that cannot be relieved in a way they find tolerable, request voluntary assisted dying. It takes three requests, two verbal and a written declaration witnessed by two independent people; health practitioners may conscientiously object, and a Voluntary Assisted Dying Board oversees compliance.Second reading · Western Australia · Legislative Council · 40th Parliament · Question thus passed. 25–1023 Oct 2019 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019Lets an adult who is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, has lived in Western Australia for at least 12 months, has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative condition) and suffering that cannot be relieved in a way they find tolerable, request voluntary assisted dying. It takes three requests, two verbal and a written declaration witnessed by two independent people; health practitioners may conscientiously object, and a Voluntary Assisted Dying Board oversees compliance.Third reading · Western Australia · Legislative Assembly · 40th Parliament · Question thus passed. 45–1124 Sep 2019 ↗
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019Lets an adult who is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, has lived in Western Australia for at least 12 months, has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative condition) and suffering that cannot be relieved in a way they find tolerable, request voluntary assisted dying. It takes three requests, two verbal and a written declaration witnessed by two independent people; health practitioners may conscientiously object, and a Voluntary Assisted Dying Board oversees compliance.Second reading · Western Australia · Legislative Assembly · 40th Parliament · Question thus passed. 44–123 Sep 2019 ↗

Votes are shown as the official record lists them — Hansard federally and in New South Wales; Votes and Proceedings, Minutes of the Proceedings and Hansard in Victoria; the Record of Proceedings in Queensland; the Votes and Proceedings and Minutes of Proceedings in Western Australia; the Votes and Proceedings (House of Assembly) and Hansard (Legislative Council) in South Australia; the Votes and Proceedings of both chambers in Tasmania. "Did not vote" means the member held the seat that day and is on neither list — the record says who was in the chamber, not why, so it is never an abstention. Western Australia’s record prints no pairs, so a member paired there shows as did not vote. Nothing is shown for a presiding officer who by law gives only a casting vote (the Speaker and the President in South Australia, the President in Tasmania), nor for the member presiding at a Tasmanian division, which Tasmania’s journals record. Which bills sit under which issue is an editorial choice, made bill by bill with a reason read from the second-reading speech. A bill decided by an earlier parliament (Queensland’s 2018 abortion law reform, for one) is shown with that parliament named, read from the official record of the day. For Queensland and the federal parliament “did not vote” there means the member held a seat that day, as their service is recorded; for the other earlier parliaments the record of who held a seat could not be read, so only the printed Aye, No and paired votes are shown.