22 September 2016
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Battle for right to die revived after 20 years
More than 20 years after he enacted the nation’s first assisted suicide laws — later axed by the federal government — Marshall Perron says the battle to bring back the right to die has been revived. He concedes his efforts two decades ago were something of a social experiment but says whatever genuine doubts people then had about the cascading effects of legal suicide have passed into history, with the largely positive experiences of European nations, some US states and Canada. Victoria and South Australia, Mr Perron says, now represent “the best prospects” for change since hopes in the Northern Territory evaporated.