Professor Max Watson:

Just very quickly, in relation to Senator Mullen's first question, we have seen a deterioration in countries which have introduced assisted dying. Australia has decreased end-of-life care. It has gone down two places in the league table, from fourth. The Netherlands has gone down. New Zealand has gone down eight places since 2015. Switzerland has actually improved. Canada has gone down 11 places in terms of overall indices. Belgium has gone down 21 places.

It is not universal in all countries but there is a trend that where assisted dying has come in, the quality of end-of-life care, as previously assessed, has decreased.