Labor's Telehealth Vote: Why Albanese's Own Party Wants to Undercut Assisted Dying Safeguards
Labor's national conference just voted to scrap a safeguard on assisted dying telehealth. The Prime Minister objected. His own party voted around him anyway. Watch to understand what actually happened, and what's still to come. This week on Life in 5, we break down the outcome of Labor's national conference in Adelaide, where delegates voted to commit federal Labor to removing telehealth restrictions on voluntary assisted dying and to guarantee MPs a conscience vote on the issue. The episode looks at what that vote actually changes (and doesn't), why Victoria's own experience shows how fast safeguards get loosened once a scheme is up and running, and why the real access gap facing rural and regional Australians sits in the palliative care workforce, not in euthanasia itself.

