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James Robertson

Liberal senator’s change of heart after heartbreak at father’s harrowing experience

An emotional Senator Jane Hume told the Senate her vote on euthanasia had changed. Photo: AAP

A prominent Coalition senator became overwhelmed with emotion on Wednesday as she spoke of her father’s death, and the way it transformed her views on assisted dying.

The Senate heard speeches on a bid to lift a federal veto that has prevented the ACT and the Northern Territory from considering euthanasia laws in what has been, for more than two decades, a block on law reform in the territories. 

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