REACTION TO VICTORIA'S LOWER HOUSE PASSING THE ASSISTED DYING BILL:
- "This is extraordinary. Public life is about getting the big and important things done, and this is big and it's very, very important to a lot of Victorians." - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews
- "I didn't support the bill and I wouldn't support any bill like that. However, it's been a conscience vote. Members have voted according to what they felt was the right thing". - Opposition Leader Matthew Guy
- "The passage of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill through the Victorian lower house is truly a sad moment for the whole country." - Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating
- "Great news that dying with dignity laws are a step closer in Victoria, to provide people with choice & control at the end of their lives." - Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale
- "Congratulations to the Victorian Lower House for compassionate, long-overdue vote on dying with dignity. Not perfect. But a start." - Senator Derryn Hinch
- "There aren't too many times in public life when you can sit back and say, 'Here's a government that's taken a genuine effort to lead on a issue of very vexed social policy'." - Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas
- "I didn't support the bill because the safeguards aren't safe enough. If the upper house can't improve it, then it should knock it back." - shadow treasurer Michael O'Brien
- "Forty years ago I began my advocacy of #AssistedDying. Today an enlightened Victorian Parliament voted with courage. We can die with dignity." - Longevity Innovation Hub chairman Everald Compton
- "Disappointing lower house vote #VAD bill. Doesn't change our #ethics, nor duty of parliaments to make laws. Now off to the house of review." - Australian Medical Association president Dr Michael Gannon
- "The Andrews government has successfully passed through the Legislative Assembly a bill which will sanction doctor-assisted suicide." - Right to Life Australia president Margaret Tighe
