An earlier attempt to legalise euthanasia or voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia happened in 2010, when Greens MP Robin Chapple introduced a bill into parliament.
[1] Prominent campaigners for voluntary assisted dying or euthanasia in Western Australia include Clive Deverall and David Goodall.
AMA (WA) president Andrew Miller said that based on surveys it had conducted, a minority of doctors support voluntary assisted dying.
During Victoria's legislative debate on voluntary assisted dying, AMA president Michael Gannon said that "doctors are not trained to kill people.
"[4][8] In November 2018, it was announced that Malcolm McCusker, a former Governor of Western Australia, would lead an 11-member panel to write a bill for voluntary assisted dying.
[9] The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 was introduced to the Parliament of Western Australia on 7 August 2019 by the Minister for Health, Roger Cook.
This irritated leader of the upper house Sue Ellery and premier Mark McGowan, who accused Goiran of filibustering, the second time he had done so in 2019.
[14] Pro-euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke said that Western Australia's laws were too restrictive, and they would force others like David Goodall, who are not sick but want to die for other reasons, to travel to other countries for euthanasia.