The Finocchiaro CLP Government has rejected the recommendations made in its own report into Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation to add a controversial new eligibility requirement for those looking to access assisted dying that a former chief minister cautioned against, but which the Australian Christian Lobby has heralded as a “sensible safeguard”.

Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby issued a statement Wednesday night, disclosing the government would add new eligibility criteria that will require terminally ill patients to have an a “condition that is advanced, progressive and expected to cause death within 12 months”.

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