The contents of that report and the draft bill would remain under wraps for now,with Ms Fentiman given 14 days to table them.
But Commission chair Justice Peter Applegarth said Queensland’s framework would not be identical to those of other Australian states,where voluntary euthanasia laws had already passed.
“The fact that the draft bill does not contain a clause in identical terms to one in,say,Victoria,but has a provision that resembles one inWestern Australia,or contains provisions that do not currently exist in either of those states,should be no surprise,” he wrote in a review update.
“We have aimed to adopt what is good in principle and workable in practice from laws in other states and countries like New Zealand.
“We have not felt compelled to adopt provisions that seem wrong in principle or purely the result of political compromise.
“We have developed some provisions that were thought about in other places but consigned to the ‘too hard basket’ or,due to pressure of time,left to be worked out in regulations and policy guidelines.”
Justice Applegarth said Queensland’s draft laws included many “improvements” on interstate laws.