22/7/26

New Aged Care Right to Palliative Care: Tasmania's Funding Just Got Cut

The government just gave dying Australians a new legal right to palliative care. Weeks later, it cut funding to a program already delivering it in Tasmania. Watch to understand what's really happening. This year's aged care reforms finally wrote a right to proper end-of-life care into law, closing a gap that saw people lose vital support if they lived longer than doctors expected. But days after Tasmania revealed the Federal Government had cut funding to a program that had already helped thousands of aged care residents die in their preferred place, the Federal Health Minister was asked what responsibility he'd take, and pointed to the system built to replace it rather than the people falling through the gap right now. On Life in 5, we look at what the new right actually delivers, what's already been lost, and why the gap between palliative care and euthanasia policy in Australia keeps widening.

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