DAY 2:  SUMMARY

A stark reminder that if an LNP government held power in QLD we wouldn’t be having a Voluntary Assisted Dying debate/vote ☹

Amazing that there can be so much information – so many harrowing stories shared with so many Politicians and yet it all comes down to Party Politics …

Today’s support in Second Reading – ALP

Nikki Boyd, Robert Skelton, Tom Smith, Di Farmer, Cameron Dick, Jennifer Howard, Don Brown, Mick de Brenni, Jonty Bush, James Martin, Curtis Pitt, Peter Russo, Glenn Butcher, Jimmy Sullivan

Support – Greens

Michael Berkmann

Does not support the Bill (LNP)

Colin Boyce, Amanda Camm, Tony Perrett, Laura Gerber, Jon Krause, Stephen Bennett, Deb Frecklington, Jim McDonald (who thinks upping morphine is preferable to VAD …), Jarrod Bleijje (who is haunted by the risk a child might drink ‘the poison” and die …  wonder if he’s worried about a child picking up chemotherapy medication, opioids & morphine in the home used by terminally ill parents/siblings?)

Does not support the Bill (ALP)

Bart Mellish

Unclear

Pat Weir (LNP)