Albanese at odds with Labor policy which now says telehealth should be allowed for euthanasia consultations

Anthony Albanese at last week’s ALP national conference. Labor’s updated platform says the party will ‘remove barriers that exist in federal law to the provision of end-of-life care’. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/Reuters

Labor will come under pressure to allow Australians to access voluntary assisted dying through telehealth services, with the Greens and independent Kate Chaney to introduce legislation based on changes to Labor’s national platform.

Last week’s national conference in Adelaide changed the ALP platform and committed Labor to overturn a Howard-era law banning people from having medical appointments regarding euthanasia via telehealth services.