John?Key wants a new flag, but has lacks the?courage to tackle a popular new law, one that a huge majority of people want.
A poll has shown more than 70 percent of people believe the law should be changed to allow voluntary euthanasia, but the Government isn’t going to change its position.
The 3 News/Reid Research poll called the question Lecretia’s choice. Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales died from a brain tumour in June just hours after her family was told the High Court had ruled against her bid to choose when she could die.
The poll showed 71 percent wanted the law change while 24 percent opposed it.?
Prime Minister John Key was asked whether he would put it on the Government’s agenda.
“I won’t change the law on my own,” he said.
“If it goes through the members’ process and there’s a good and considered piece of legislation, I would vote for it.”
A member’s bill can be drafted by any MP and put into the ballot, or Parliament could agree to debate it without it being drawn.
It would cost stuff all extra to whack a couple of extra questions onto the ballot, one for euthanasia and one for legalisation of cannabis.
– 3 News
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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