The Western Australian parliament will debate legislation allowing terminally ill people in severe pain and with less than six months to live to seek voluntary assisted dying.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook says the proposed bill has 102 safeguards in place, and Labor MPs will be given a conscience vote following a debate on the issue scheduled for later this year.
The bill follows the largest public and community consultation ever undertaken in WA, as well as reviews of similar laws in other jurisdictions, including Victoria, which enacted assisted dying legislation in June.