‘A beautiful death’: Liberal senator’s change of heart on voluntary assisted dying

Thanks to Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying laws, Jane Hume’s devoutly Catholic father was able to have a peaceful, painless death. Now she wants people in the territories to also have that right.

“I once felt in my heart that it was wrong too. I once voted against this legislation. But I will be voting in favour of it today,” she said. Pocock said Hume’s “courageous and deeply moving speech” highlighted how important it was to bring on the territory rights vote. “It’s deeply personal. But my deeply personal experience has dramatically changed my position on voluntary assisted dying,” she said after delivering her speech.As her father Steve wasted away from cancer that commitment became imperative. COVID hit when her father was finally approved for assisted dying, but was told he needed to wait three weeks to be shown what he needed to do.

rachelclun I’m conservative and will stick to the party line until it affects me personally, then I’m progressive…

rachelclun Sounds like a very sad decision.

rachelclun Typical Liberal. Couldn’t care less until personally affected.

rachelclun Ethics, philosophy, research, evidence and logic all pale into insignificance compared to personal experience for conservatives.

rachelclun She didn’t until her own family was impacted…

rachelclun Sigh !! This woman is suppose to represent all people, her personal views should have never entered this issue in the first place. I'm glad her father had a peaceful end though.

rachelclun Don't think the Pope agrees. Victorian Senator is a fascist whom has not spoken out against the slavery, torture, arbitrary detention of Australian civilians and the unconstitutional legislation, violating the holocaust prevention writ.

rachelclun So sorry to hear about your father SenatorHume . But it was for the people of the territories to decide anyway. Utterly arrogant of your party to deprive us of that right.

rachelclun This disgusting individual consistently and for years voted against assisted dying legislation, thus denying relief to many others and committing them to protracted sometimes agonising final stages of their life. But when it’s her family she backflips and it’s all OK? Really?

rachelclun Which government and premier legislated the assisted dying laws in Victoria ? auspol LiberalVictoria

rachelclun They never get social issues until they get personally smacked in the face by said social issue.

rachelclun Is there anything this creature wont do for a photo op? She voted against this for years and now she wants her 15 minutes of fame?

rachelclun Can’t’ve been that devout. Sounds like another flimsy leftist agenda to me. Pair up with the media and convince the world to kill themselves on government terms.

vjmahon rachelclun 'Senate leader Penny Wong said there would be a vote on the bill before Christmas.' There's the real story. It would be nice if Hume apologised to all the people who have missed out on this opportunity to end suffering due to Coalition indifference. auspol

rachelclun I saw her speech. It was beautiful.

rachelclun Which she consistently voted against for years and years thus denying thousands of families this exact opportunity. Instead they suffered because Jane and her mob could grab some cheap political points out of it. Condolences to Jane and her family but this is not good character.

rachelclun Isn’t it interesting that you’ve made it look like Jane Hume was responsible for the Victorian legislation

rachelclun I thought poor Jane didn’t have any policies? Seriously, why is the Age running Woman’s Weekly puff pieces on failed Lib politicians?

rachelclun Another conservative to add to the 'its not an issue until it affects me' crowd.

The people in the comments have got a better take on this story than 9fax.

rachelclun So don’t listen to everyone’s thoughts and shocking experiences…oh it happened to me now everyone listen…

rachelclun These people don't care about anything unless it directly affects them

rachelclun I wish politicians would understand that they don’t have to experience something to come to the right conclusion when empathy would work just as well.

rachelclun As a Collapsed Catholic, I wish more people would exercise evidence-based judgment rather than go along with whatever the local priest/ pastor/ imam/ rabbi has to say. It shouldn’t have taken Hume’s dad’s death for her to come to a rational conclusion.

Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

‘A beautiful death’: Liberal senator’s change of heart on voluntary assisted dyingA Victorian senator has described the highly emotional circumstances of her father’s death amid a debate about whether to overturn a 25-year ban on the ACT and NT legalising voluntary euthanasia. rachelclun Personal experience of an issue shouldn’t be required for politicians to make the right decision rachelclun rachelclun Imagine wanting the state to kill people. Has the covid debacle taught us nothing?
Source: smh - 🏆 6. / 80 Read more »

The UN has ruled Australia violated our rights. Will Albanese act?We are celebrating now, but we know this is just the beginning. The new Australian government may have brought in a new climate policy, but more ambitious action must be taken urgently. The UN is also gay. Do/Did the LNP Politicians that were in the last Government have personal indemnity Insurance, they are probably going to need it 🙄🙄🙄 UN with Chinese bias stirring up trouble
Source: smh - 🏆 6. / 80 Read more »

The UN has ruled Australia violated our rights. Will Albanese act?We are celebrating now, but we know this is just the beginning. The new Australian government may have brought in a new climate policy, but more ambitious action must be taken urgently. The UN in one emoji….🤡 Why would you take action against Australia - only 1% of world emissions. Try China or US for compensation, see how that goes. The Anglo leadership of my land since they conquered us have not cared for us. You can see by their anti-indigenous policies in black & white since 1788. Will non-Anglo Albanese be different in his modus operandi on us?
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »

Coalition aiming to ‘get the balance right’ with anti-corruption bill: DuttonOpposition leader Peter Dutton has indicated the Coalition is yet to decide on a formal position for the Labor government’s anti-corruption legislation. He said the Coalition would take a “responsible approach” to the bill and take it through the normal processes within the party room. “We want a situation where people who have committed a criminal act are held to account,” he said. He said it was important to “get the balance right” with the commission. “It’s why the fanatics within the Greens need to be treated with great caution in relation to this issue.” Who cares? They're irrelevant as of 23 May 2022. if they dont support it, its political suicide.. excellent. As if their opinion matters the cross bench is all labor needs 🙄
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

‘A beautiful death’: Liberal senator’s change of heart on voluntary assisted dyingA Victorian senator has described the highly emotional circumstances of her father’s death amid a debate about whether to overturn a 25-year ban on the ACT and NT legalising voluntary euthanasia. rachelclun Personal experience of an issue shouldn’t be required for politicians to make the right decision rachelclun rachelclun Imagine wanting the state to kill people. Has the covid debacle taught us nothing?
Source: smh - 🏆 6. / 80 Read more »